Barnebeck Andersen, Thomas; Bentzen, Jeanet; Dalgaard, … - In: The World Bank Economic Review 25 (2011) 3, pp. 387-417
We test the hypothesis that the Internet is a useful technology for controlling corruption. In order to do so, we develop a novel identification strategy for Internet diffusion. Power disruptions damage digital equipment, which increases the user cost of IT capital, and thus lowers the speed of...