IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL: INTERNET ACCESS AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY.
Using a panel of up to 114 countries covering the years 1990 through 2010, we estimate the effect of Internet use on changes in countries' Economic Freedom of the World ( EFW) scores. The point estimates suggest that the marginal effect is generally positive. However, starting from above-average EFW...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 33; no. 4; pp. 649 - 668 |
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