Regional Disparity in ICT Adoption: an Empirical Evaluation of The Effects of Subsidies in Italy
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Keywords
information and communication technologies; regional disparities; digital divide; subsidies; treatment effect; nearest neighbour matching estimator;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2006-07-21 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-GEO-2006-07-21 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-ICT-2006-07-21 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-INO-2006-07-21 (Innovation)
- NEP-TID-2006-07-21 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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