We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the … municipalities have – depending on broadband quality – a between 16.8 and 23.2 percent higher broadband coverage than non …-aided municipalities. This increase in broadband coverage – closing the digital divide – results in an increase of on average seven …

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the … that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband quality - between 18.4 and 25.4 percentage points higher broadband … coverage than non-aided municipalities. This increase in broadband coverage, closing the digital divide, results in an average …

We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic … broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …. In this study, we do not only analyse whether the aid was effective in solving a market failure – low broadband coverage …