A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

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 …

took place and the rapid diffusion of two key innovations - the Internet and mobile communications - changed the … early 1980's. In particular after their delayed adoption of the recent innovations like deregulation and Internet began …

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 …