avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but … standard deviation increase in internet penetration lowers local sales taxes in large municipalities by 0.15 percentage points …

functions. The statistics on internet use show that although its penetration to the population is growing rapidly, there is a … steady 10% gap between men (55%) and women (45%) use. It also becomes obvious, in relevant market surveys, that the internet … led them to success over the internet and its potential impact on business growth. Moreover, since ladies in business …

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established … firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access … to the first generation of broadband internet and later speed upgrades by exploiting technological peculiarities of the …

widely. Ensuring robust competition across the digital value chain is therefore of paramount importance. Internet …