This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online … distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations. …

Did the diffusion of the Internet lead to convergence or divergence of local wages? We examine the relationship between … business use of advanced Internet technology and regional variation in US wage growth between 1995 and 2000. We show that … business use of advanced Internet technology is associated with wage growth but find no evidence that the Internet contributed …

Bitnet - and likely subsequent versions, including the Internet - seems to have increased the role of second …

We show that gravity holds in the case of digital goods that are consumed over the Internet and have no trading costs …, even after controlling for country-level Internet expertise, language, income, immigrant stock, and many other factors …