This paper uses the dramatic expansion of access to the Internet in China to analyze the impact of the Internet on firm performance. The paper combines firm-level production data with province-level information on Internet penetration to examine how the rollout of the Internet across Chinese...

The paper uses data of 29 provinces in China from 1983 to 1995 to estimates the effects of cultivated land, mechanical area, and market factors such as prices, natural conditions and agricultural investment on agricultural output during this period. The estimated results show that a substantial...