Debates continue about whether broadband Internet access should be made a part of universal service policy. While both the US and the EU have not explicitly adopted such a policy, other countries, particularly developing nations hoping to leapfrog the developed world, have done so. Further, some...

The deployment of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) is attractive from both technical and social perspectives, but market forces may not suffice to trigger the desired levels of investment. Cave (2004) and the European Commission (2010) describe how National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) have...

Questions about the efficacy of cost-based prices, as a basis for pricing capacity access in telecommunication networks, continue to dominate the debate in both theory and practice. The literature questions the versatility of cost-based access from the standpoint of option pricing theory. The...

Objective: The goal of this article is to analyse the impact of different measures of entrepreneurial activity, namely through attitudes and behaviour, on the economic growth of 21 European countries. The goal is to assess the impact of entrepreneurial activity, measured by perceived...

Today, many platforms host user-generated content (UGC) and content by professionals side by side. However, behavior of UGC and professionals is mostly studied in isolation. In this paper, we study the spillover effects from UGC on content from professionals in the context of the news industry....

During the COVID-19 pandemic, most workers had to work from home due to the successive lockdowns across European countries. This constraint posed significant challenges to many workers and companies regarding working conditions and work-life balance. Framed by the job demands-resources model...

In this paper, we devise an analytical consumer choice model in which consumers can visit a subscription video-on-demand platform to watch content from their watchlist and browse the catalog to search for additional content. We also partner with a large multinational telecommunications provider...

Using a household level dataset, we measure the impact of a website blocking agreement based on DNS filtering on digital piracy and the consumption of pay-TV, Video on Demand, and paid entertainment channels. Our results show that blocking access to copyright infringing websites reduces Internet...

This article presents a group of exercises of level and growth decomposition of output per worker using cross-country data from 1970 to 2000. It is shown that in the early seventies factors of production (capital and education) were the main source of output dispersion across economies and that...