Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96549 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
ESMT Working Paper No. 07-002
Publisher: 
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin
Abstract: 
Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a novel, single-stage econometric approach to a standard diffusion model, we therefore estimate how the saturation level covaries with independent factors. In our application to diffusion of an important retail information technology, we focus on the competitive effect of hypermarkets (superstores). We also find standard scale, income and labor substitution effects.
Subjects: 
diffusion
information technology
retail competition
JEL: 
L5
L81
O33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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