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 …, telephone density, legal quality and banking sector development are associated with technology penetration rates. Overall, the …

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 …To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a …

existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a theory of … described by a power distribution with coefficient one: Zipf's Law. Under certain assumptions our theory produces Zipf's Law …