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Effects of vertical integration on internet service providers’ zero-rating choice 垂直整合对互联网服务提供商零评级选择的影响
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101005
Fuyuki Saruta
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引用次数: 0
Multidimensional media slant: Complementarities in news reporting by US newspapers 多维媒体倾向:美国报纸新闻报道的互补性
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101006
Sandra García-Uribe
{"title":"Multidimensional media slant: Complementarities in news reporting by US newspapers","authors":"Sandra García-Uribe","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies front-page choices made by editors of major US newspapers. I document that newspaper front pages are biased to certain combinations of news after controlling for the newspaper bias and the overall market coverage of such news. I also provide a reader-maximization model for front-page decisions that I use to interpret the empirical biases as preferences of the newspaper population of target readers. Through the lens of my model, my estimates recover maps of complementarities among pairs of topics for each newspaper and I find that these contribute to the probability that news on a topic appears on the front page.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101006"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137269504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Impact of digitalization and environmental regulation on total factor productivity 数字化与环境规制对全要素生产率的影响
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101007
Huwei Wen , Changyong Wen , Chien-Chiang Lee
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引用次数: 40
Behavior-based price discrimination in a horizontally and vertically differentiated duopoly with switching costs 具有转换成本的横向和纵向差异化双寡头垄断中基于行为的价格歧视
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101004
Masashi Umezawa
{"title":"Behavior-based price discrimination in a horizontally and vertically differentiated duopoly with switching costs","authors":"Masashi Umezawa","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.101004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyzes behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) in an asymmetric duopoly with switching costs and including both vertical and horizontal differentiation. We demonstrate that there are two configurations of market share in equilibrium. In the first configuration, where both firms poach their rival’s consumers, the equilibria arise when switching costs are low and the firms are relatively symmetric. In the second configuration, where only the firm with more supporting services poaches the rival’s consumers, the resulting equilibria reverse. We reveal the impact of switching costs on firm profits under BBPD as well as under uniform pricing and show that with either high switching costs or sufficiently large firm asymmetries, BBPD may benefit both firms. Moreover, we find that in the second market configuration, social welfare can be higher with BBPD than with uniform pricing under high switching costs and large firm asymmetries. We also reach the same conclusion regarding social welfare when consumers are myopic in the first market configuration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"61 ","pages":"Article 101004"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47988156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 3
Net neutrality and consumer demand in the video on-demand market 网络中立性与视频点播市场中的消费者需求
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100993
Andrea Szabó , Vinh Pham
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引用次数: 0
Telework in the spread of COVID-19 远程办公与COVID-19的传播
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100987
Toshihiro Okubo
{"title":"Telework in the spread of COVID-19","authors":"Toshihiro Okubo","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), people have been requested to work from home with information and communication technology (ICT) tools, i.e. telework. This paper investigates which factors (infection of COVID-19, individual characteristics, task characteristics, and working environments) are associated with telework use in Japan. Using the unique panel survey on telework, our estimation finds that although telework use remains low in Japan, educated, high ICT-skilled, younger, and female workers who engage in less teamwork and less routine tasks tend to use telework. Working environments such as the richness of IT communication tools, digitalized offices, and flexible-hour working systems are all positively correlated with telework use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100987"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167624522000269/pdfft?md5=1f1e35473ab45509bdc795896e2e00d0&pid=1-s2.0-S0167624522000269-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42448177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 20
Education outcomes of broadband expansion in Brazilian municipalities 巴西城市宽带扩展的教育成果
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100983
Alexandre Lauri Henriksen, Ana Carolina Zoghbi, Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Rafael Terra
{"title":"Education outcomes of broadband expansion in Brazilian municipalities","authors":"Alexandre Lauri Henriksen,&nbsp;Ana Carolina Zoghbi,&nbsp;Maria Tannuri-Pianto,&nbsp;Rafael Terra","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100983","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100983","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study analyzes the effect of local Internet speed infrastructure (backhaul) on educational outcomes. In 2008, the Brazilian government implemented an Internet expansion policy that brought broadband to more than 3000 municipalities. The policy was designed with implementation criteria that make it a natural experiment that can be investigated through a regression discontinuity design (RDD). The results suggest worsening proficiency, higher dropout and retention among students from municipalities served by more powerful backhauls, i.e., capable of supporting higher connection speeds over fiberoptic lines. These results are paralleled in the empirical literature, which predominantly indicates negative or neutral effects of Internet access on education. This study demonstrates the need for a deeper reflection on the domestic use of the Internet and its consequences on educational outcomes of school-age children and adolescents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100983"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49592517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Digital government as a business facilitator 作为商业促进者的数字政府
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100990
João Martins , Linda Gonçalves Veiga
{"title":"Digital government as a business facilitator","authors":"João Martins ,&nbsp;Linda Gonçalves Veiga","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100990","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Administrative and regulatory burden reduction is critical to improving government efficiency and economic competitiveness. Innovations in government through Information and Communication Technologies are key tools in designing policies to achieve these goals. Using a panel dataset covering 169 countries from 2004 to 2018, we investigate the possible contribution of digital government as a business facilitator. The empirical results suggest that progress in digital government contributes to reducing administrative and regulatory burdens, creating a more business-friendly environment in several areas of business regulations. Governance effectiveness may also play a significant role in facilitating business. The results are robust to a battery of robustness tests and alternative empirical strategies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100990"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167624522000294/pdfft?md5=71149ee0f13d67abe805226bbcc6fe50&pid=1-s2.0-S0167624522000294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43002730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Harmonic price targeting 协调价格目标
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100984
Daniel Garcia
{"title":"Harmonic price targeting","authors":"Daniel Garcia","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper studies third-degree price discrimination in a classical model of price competition with differentiated products. Firms charge different prices to different consumers, based on their estimate of their price sensitivity. If the market is fully covered and information is symmetric, more accurate information has a pure redistributive effect, leading to higher profits but lower consumer welfare. If the market is not covered, information always benefit firms but the welfare effects are ambiguous. If information is asymmetric, firms benefit from more information, but less so than in the symmetric case, and total welfare depends on the extent of this asymmetry. I conclude that firms have strong incentives to share information about consumer tastes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100984"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167624522000233/pdfft?md5=8955d3b3c4aacb7846a5a2e7220c9647&pid=1-s2.0-S0167624522000233-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43703497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Let the user speak: Is feedback on Facebook a source of firms’ innovation? 让用户说话:Facebook上的反馈是公司创新的源泉吗?
IF 2.8 3区 经济学
Information Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991
Irene Bertschek , Reinhold Kesler
{"title":"Let the user speak: Is feedback on Facebook a source of firms’ innovation?","authors":"Irene Bertschek ,&nbsp;Reinhold Kesler","doi":"10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoecopol.2022.100991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Social media open up new possibilities for firms to exploit information from various external sources. Does this information help firms to become more innovative? Combining firm-level survey data with information from firms’ Facebook pages, we study the role that firms’ and users’ activities on Facebook play in the innovation process. We find that firms’ adoption of a Facebook page as well as feedback from users are positively and significantly related to product innovations. Our results withstand a large set of robustness checks, including estimations that take potential endogeneity of firms’ Facebook use as well as unobserved heterogeneity into account. Analyzing the content of firm posts and user comments reveals that Facebook adoption is only correlated with product innovations if firms and users actively participate in a discussion, especially when engagement is above-average and comes from both sides.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47029,"journal":{"name":"Information Economics and Policy","volume":"60 ","pages":"Article 100991"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137419572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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