To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

current main techniques for Internet measurement. We highlight different economic perspectives and explanations for the …This paper analyses the rapid diffusion of the Internet across the United States over the past decade for both … households and firms. We put the Internet's diffusion into the context of economic diffusion theory where we consider costs and …

communication about future interest rate decisions based on information from the Internet and news sources. We apply the methodology …

welfare gains highly uncertain. We show that for time-intensive goods like the Internet, a simple model in which both … use and the opportunity cost of people's time (i.e., the wage). The theory predicts that higher wage internet subscribers …. Based on expenditure and time use data and our elasticity estimate, we calculate that consumer surplus from the Internet may …

networking devices and the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the … descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement … rate or return from IT spillovers from the invention of the Internet, and to a large potential undercounting of "digital …

,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure …

variation in the timing of the introduction of high-speed internet service, we also demonstrate that the introduction of home … reading test scores. Further evidence suggests that providing universal access to home computers and high-speed internet …