Arbeitspapier
Broadband infrastructure and economic growth
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.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2861
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Telecommunications
Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
- Thema
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broadband
high-speed internet
technology diffusion
economic growth
Breitbandkommunikation
Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur
Innovationsdiffusion
Wirtschaftswachstum
Schätzung
OECD-Staaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Czernich, Nina
Falck, Oliver
Kretschmer, Tobias
Woessmann, Ludger
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2009
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Czernich, Nina
- Falck, Oliver
- Kretschmer, Tobias
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2009
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