The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …

Recent cross country panel data studies find a positive impact of internet use on economic growth and a positive impact … of internet use on trade. The present study challenges the first finding by showing that internet use does not explain … highly correlated with internet use and the findings in the literature that internet use causes trade is confirmed here …

This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …

to consumers in their assessment of the quality Internet retailers. Theses dimensions are access, easy of use, design …

Internet usage is growing rapidly among the world. Furthermore, Internet usage is widely accepted among EU countries …' citizens. In this paper intend is to research to what extent Internet sales by individuals is influenced by the barriers people … perceive to buying/ordering over the Internet, using of Internet, and level of computer/Internet skills them posses. A data …

How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to … Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000 – 2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet … approach that uses lightning strikes to instrument for Internet penetration. Thus, contrary to a commonly held belief that the …