The paper introduces a dynamic, flexible partial-adjustment model and uses it to analyze the diffusion of Internet … connectivity. It specifies and estimates desired levels of Internet diffusion and the speed at which countries achieve the target … levels. The target levels and speed of adjustment are both country and time specific. Factors affecting Internet diffusion …

study addresses the question whether the emergence of broadband internet influences economic and social development. The … results indicate that broadband internet indeed positively affects a number of economically and socially meaningful variables …. To address concerns a reverse causality and omitted variables and to identify causal effects of broadband internet …