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dc.contributor.author | Czernich, Nina | en |
dc.contributor.author | Falck, Oliver | en |
dc.contributor.author | Kretschmer, Tobias | en |
dc.contributor.author | Woessmann, Ludger | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-08-11T09:04:36Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2010-08-11T09:04:36Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37226 | - |
dc.description.abstract | We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points. Results are robust to country and year fixed effects and controlling for linear second-stage effects of our instruments. We verify that our instruments predict broadband penetration but not diffusion of contemporaneous technologies like mobile telephony and computers. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aVerein für Socialpolitik |cFrankfurt a. M. | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aBeiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Globalization and Technical Change |xB14-V1 | en |
dc.subject.jel | O47 | en |
dc.subject.jel | L96 | en |
dc.subject.jel | K23 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Broadband | en |
dc.subject.keyword | high-speed internet | en |
dc.subject.keyword | technology diffusion | en |
dc.subject.keyword | economic growth | en |
dc.title | Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth | - |
dc.type | Conference Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 65493262X | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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