This paper examines whether the Internet has led to a shift from reliance on resource revenue towards progressive reliance on non-resource revenue, which is ultimately a sustainable source of public revenue. The analysis has been carried out using a sample of 99 countries, including both...

This paper examines whether the Internet has led to a shift from reliance on resource revenue towards progressive reliance on non-resource revenue, which is ultimately a sustainable source of public revenue. The analysis has been carried out using a sample of 99 countries, including both...

The objective of this paper is twofold: first we use the methodology developed by Goolsbee and Klenow (2006) (G&K) that estimates the consumer's surplus of Internet's connection for France in 2005. Second, our paper challenges the initial methodology developed by G & K by using two complementary...

Given the increasingly prominent role the Internet plays in people's daily life, understanding its influence on individual well-being is crucial. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns that may increase life satisfaction. But the Internet might also have detrimental effects...

La diffusion des TIC chez les PE demeure faible (Eurostat 2010) et pourtant parmi les applications IT, internet est pour les PE une source d'opportunités de développement de leur business (Scaglione et al. 2009). L'un des enjeux est donc de savoir si internet peut être utilisé efficacement...