Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral …-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in transportation, communication, energy, and finance on trade in … of the gravity model. Importantly, we still observe significant and non-linear effects of infrastructure on bilateral …

We investigate economic and institutional determinants of ICT infrastructure for a broad cross section ofmore than 100 … semiparametric regression estimators. The results show that the regressions are able to explain ICT infrastructure very well. Major … the quality of the institutional environment. We also find evidence of conditional convergence of the ICT infrastructure …