Kim, Younjun; Orazem, Peter - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
The availability of broadband Internet service should have increased firm productivity and lowered firm entry costs … counterfactual baseline firm entry rate for each zip code area in rural counties by showing how the presence of broadband service in … a ZIP code in 2001 affected firm entry in 1990-1992 before Broadband was available. We then measure how the actual …