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Entry, Investment, and Product Quality : = Three Studies of Internet Service Provision.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Entry, Investment, and Product Quality :/
Reminder of title:	Three Studies of Internet Service Provision.
Author:	Wilson, Kyle.
Description:	1 online resource (106 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Economic theory. -
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ISBN:	9781369786682

Entry, Investment, and Product Quality : = Three Studies of Internet Service Provision.
Wilson, Kyle.

Entry, Investment, and Product Quality :Three Studies of Internet Service Provision. - 1 online resource (106 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

This body of work investigates the determinants of entry, investment, and product quality in the internet service provision industry. Since its inception in the 1990s, the industry has evolved tremendously. Internet service has become available to the vast majority of Americans, and the available speeds of access have improved continuously. However, many areas of the country have lagged behind in both when they received internet access and their available speeds. The aim of this work is to study the factors which influence firms' decisions about when to enter new markets, as well as when and where to invest in improving the quality of their service.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369786682Subjects--Topical Terms:

809881
Economic theory.
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554714
Electronic books.

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520 $a The first chapter investigates the effect of competition on quality. I consider both local competition within markets, and the effect of repeated interaction among firms across markets. I focus on the internet service provision industry both because of its importance in modern society, and because the quality of internet access is easily defined and measured. I develop a stylized theoretical model of intra-market competition, wherein internet service providers choose prices and speeds to offer, and I use this model to predict the effect of competition on firms' choice of speed. I then estimate an empirical model which accounts for both local competition and the effect of multimarket contact on observed download speeds.
520 $a In the second chapter, I study the effects of government provision of internet access. Government infrastructure investment in mixed markets may crowd out investment from private firms, or it may induce them to invest preemptively. The tension between these effects underlies the policy debate over whether to allow municipal provision of internet access. The goal of this paper is to estimate the effect of public competition on private investment, and to evaluate the resulting consequences for welfare. I estimate a model of demand for internet technologies, and combine these results with a dynamic oligopoly model of private and public internet service providers' entry and technology adoption decisions.
520 $a In the third chapter, which is joint work with Mo Xiao and Peter Orazem, we ask: does a potential entrant speed up or delay its entry into a local market when facing the threat of additional entrants? And furthermore, do strategic entry decisions affect market conditions in the long run? To study this, we investigate the evolution of the market structure of high-speed Internet service providers from 1999 to 2007, and assess the impact of early entry decisions on modern-day broadband speeds.
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