The video entertainment industry is experiencing increases in over-the-top (OTT) video
usage and cord-cutting behavior. Using unique panel data from 2012–2016, we document …

Regulatory agencies have expressed concerns that usage-based pricing (UBP) of internet
service steers consumers from streaming video to traditional TV subscriptions. We study this …

Advances in streaming technology improve access to content, but can also facilitate piracy,
creating trade-offs for content producers and distributors. We use novel household-level …

This paper documents the role that content providers play upstream in the global internet
supply chain. Using novel data, we establish three stylized facts:(1) Content providers have …

Current practice in the market shows that majority of the users buy Internet subscription from
Internet Service Provider (ISP) to access Over-the-top (OTT) services like video, and music …

My dissertation consists of three chapters on the economics of telecommunications. Chapter
1 studies how COVID-19 pandemic changed people's internet usage behavior by …