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Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524028
Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603835
Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537412
Often, it has been observed that telecommunication infrastructure development and economic growth proceed together. While this relationship has been studied in the context of developed (OECD) countries, in this study, we investigate this simultaneous relationship between telecommunications and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537266
In this study, we investigate empirically the relationship between telephone penetration and economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equations that endogenizes economic growth and telecom penetration. We find that the traditional economic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750123
This paper assesses the growth impact of telecommunications infrastructure investment in developing countries by subjecting country specific data on mainline tele-density and per capita growth to Granger causality test within a panel cointegration framework. The results suggest that growth...
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and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
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A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694473
A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189055
In this paper, we present a new and policy-relevant means of comparing the broadband adoption rates among countries the Broadband Performance Index (BPI). Unlike the OECD, which ranks countries' broadband performance using raw, per capita subscription data alone, the BPI is a policy-relevant...
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