the industry is increasingly strategic for media, Internet and consumer electronics firms. “Dis-intermediation” is …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … availability of DSL broadband at the postal code level. The results show that broadband Internet has no impact on firms' labour …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on firms' labour productivity and …, when roughly 60 percent of the German firms already used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable … broadband Internet has no impact on firms' labour productivity, whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their …

and their linkage with industrial production via the "internet of things" are likely to be ambivalent. The authors point …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German … used broadband Internet. Identification relies on instrumental variable estimation taking advantage of information on the … availability of DSL broadband at the postal code level. The results show that broadband Internet has no impact on firms' labour …