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

and these costs are not accounted for in conventional analyses. This paper illustrates this by analyzing the impact that … taxes would have had on broadband Internet access at an early stage of its diffusion around the country, combining data on …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita …), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies how information and communication technology (ICT) improvements affect trade along the value chain …

Standard consumption models assume a notional consumption flow that does not distinguish between nondurable and durable … consumption. Such notional-consumption models generate notional marginal propensities to consume (MPC). By contrast, empirical … durable stock. We compare the notional-consumption model to an isomorphic model with a durable stock, and map notional MPCs …

private-sector consumption in the high-budget-deficit economy of Israel during the first half of the 1980s. The paper develops …This paper characterizes empirically how government budget variables, such as spending, taxes, and deficits, affected … and estimates an intertemporal optimizing model of consumption choice by finite-lived individuals. The evidence supports …

The effects on consumption and retirement of characteristics of the life cycle, especially the length of the horizon … effect on effort, but its magnitude is quite small. The panel from the Retirement History Survey is used, and life …-cycle effects on consumption and retirement are estimated jointly for 1973 and 1975. There is a weak small effect of a more distant …