The Frontier of broadband adoption across the OECD: A comparison of performance

International Economic Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 111-123

  Ford, George S ^a   Koutsky, Thomas M ^a   Spiwak, Lawrence W ^a  

^a Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Economic development; Internet; OECD; Stochastic frontier analysis; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952391696     PISSN: 10168737     EISSN: 1743517X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2010.487540     Document Type: Article

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