Despite the interest in measuring price sensitivity of online consumers, most academic work on Internet commerce is … rise of Internet sales. The estimates suggest that prices online are much more variable than the CPI, which understates …

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

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

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 …

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 …

Our study provides the first census of the dispersion of Internet technology to commercial establishments in the United … States. We distinguish between participation, that is, use of the Internet because it is necessary for all business (e ….g., email and browsing) and enhancement, that is, adoption of Internet technology to enhance computing processes for competitive …