This paper uses the dramatic expansion of access to the Internet in China to analyze the impact of the Internet on firm performance. The paper combines firm-level production data with province-level information on Internet penetration to examine how the rollout of the Internet across Chinese provinces between 1999 and 2007 influenced firms' export behavior. The econometric strategy enables identifying the impact of the Internet on firm performance...
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2017/11/28
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS8262
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2017/11/28
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The internet and Chinese exports in the pre-Alibaba era
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Trade & International Integration