Costs or gross benefits? - What mainly drives cross-sectional variance in Internet adoption

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 127-140

  Drouard, Joeffrey ^a,b  

^a TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adoption costs; Digital divide; Gross benefits; Internet adoption

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION COSTS; AGE FACTORS; DIGITAL DIVIDE; EMPIRICAL MODEL; GROSS BENEFITS; INTERNET ADOPTION; RESEARCH SUPPORT;

COSTS; INTERNET; PROBABILITY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MODELING; PROBABILITY; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 79952037522     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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