Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Douglas A. Galbi
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Abstract: An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not significantly accelerated in the second half of 1990s. Average prices for U.S. bandwidth in use have fallen little in nominal terms in the second half of the 1990s. Policy makers and policy analysts should recognize that institutional change, rather than more competitors of established types, appears to be key to dramatic improvements in bandwidth growth and prices. Such a development could provide a significant additional impetus to aggregate growth and productivity.

Keywords: media; communications; advertising; time; e-government; regulation; reading; newspapers; television; radio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L D (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-04-04
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