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 …

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced internet technology and the geographic concentration of … the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in internet adoption to those … that were not. We see little difference in the growth rate of patenting between leaders and laggards in internet adoption …

The innovations that became the foundation for the Internet originate from two eras that illustrate two distinct models …

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 … benefits on the demand and supply side. We also discuss several pictures of the Internet's physical presence using some of the …

taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an early stage of its diffusion around the country, combining data on …