The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

Internet favors businesses in urban areas and (2) the Internet reduces the importance of distance for economic activity …. Controlling for other factors, we show that participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas. This … dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies for communication within an establishment appear more often at …

We construct an instrumental variable for the Internet penetration rate using China's "8-horizontal-8-longitudinal …" optical cable network to identify the impact of the Internet on the agglomeration of producer services in cities. We find that …, (i) the Internet promotes the agglomeration of producer services to cities with larger population sizes due to the higher …