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DESCRIPTION:Measuring Incumbent ISP Response to Municipal Broadband Opt-out
  Referenda in Colorado presented by Steven Landgraf (Wittenberg U).Deployi
 ng municipally-run broadband Internet to deliver high-speed access to resi
 dents is an increasingly popular idea among local communities that are con
 cerned that their current Internet offerings are substandard or otherwise 
 uncompetitive. These public networks often operate alongside private incum
 bent networks and might have substantial effects on the competitive landsc
 ape. Many states have passed restrictions on how local communities can off
 er service. Colorado law prevents a city or county from offering service u
 nless a referendum is passed. Since 2005\, voters in over 140 local jurisd
 ictions\, including half of Colorado’s counties\, have voted to approve by
 passing the state prohibition. So far only one city has launched a network
 . This research design exploits variation in the timing of a community’s a
 pproval of the referendum to see if incumbent private ISPs adjust their sp
 eed offerings (a proxy for quality) in response to the signal (referendum 
 passing) that public entry is more likely. It is possible to utilize a dif
 ference-in-difference framework to see if\, over the period 2012 to 2018\,
  incumbent upgrades in quality are faster or slower depending on whether t
 hey face a greater public entry threat. Faster upgrades could suggest that
  incumbents do so to deter an entry threat or that potential competition c
 ould be quality-enhancing. Slower upgrades could suggest that public entry
  threats crowd out investment in quality.  These effects might be amplifie
 d if they are in communities with an existing municipal electric utility\,
  which arguably makes entry more likely.
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LOCATION:Rike Hall\, DAVE Laboratory
SUMMARY:Applied Econometrics Workshop
URL;TYPE=URI:/events/applied-econometrics-workshop
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