Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234590 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 401
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 in 18 European countries to investigate the link between having a website and firm characteristics. We find that firms which are present in the web are larger, older, more productive, and more often exporters, product innovators, process innovators and (partly) foreign owned firms than firms without a website. The estimated website premia are statistically highly significant ceteris paribus after controlling for country and sector of economic activity. Furthermore, the size of these premia can be considered to be large. Good firms tend to have a website.
Subjects: 
website premia
firm characteristics
World Bank Enterprise Surveys
JEL: 
D22
L25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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