The Causal Effect of the Internet Infrastructure on the Economic Development of European City Regions;Effet causal de l'infrastructure de l'Internet sur le développement économique des agglomérations européennes

Spatial Economic Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-337

  Tranos, Emmanouil ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Granger causality; Internet infrastructure; panel data; regional economic development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865078012     PISSN: 17421772     EISSN: 17421780     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17421772.2012.694140     Document Type: Article

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