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The impact of broadband and other infrastructure on the location of new business establishments

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  • Daire McCoy, Sean Lyons, Edgar Morgenroth, Donal Palcic, Leonie Allen

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This paper analyses the impact of broadband infrastructure, along with a range of other local charac- teristics such as motorways and other infrastructure, availability of human capital and access to third level educational facilities, on the location of new business establishments. The sample period spans the intro- duction and recent history of broadband in Ireland. The results indicate that the availability of broadband infrastructure is a significant determinant, but its effects may be mediated by the presence of suffciently high human capital in an area.

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  • Daire McCoy, Sean Lyons, Edgar Morgenroth, Donal Palcic, Leonie Allen, 2017. "The impact of broadband and other infrastructure on the location of new business establishments," GRI Working Papers 282, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
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