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Institutions and ICT Adoption

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  • Kiessling, Johan

    (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)

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This paper evaluates the global diffusion process for three ICT technologies: cellular telephony, Internet and personal computers to test the hypothesis that the difference between countries in institutional characteristics significantly affects the time to adoption of these technologies. The analysis shows that the quality of economic and financial institutions and, to a smaller degree political institutions, significantly affects the time to adoption of the studied ICT technologies. The institutional effects were not uniform during all stages of adoption and for all three technologies but the level effects were on average found to be of the same magnitude as those of education and GDP per capita. The results are robust also when controlled for a number of other possible determinants of productivity and growth as well as fixed country effects.

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  • Kiessling, Johan, 2006. "Institutions and ICT Adoption," Research Papers in Economics 2006:7, Stockholm University, Department of Economics, revised 03 May 2007.
    • Handle: RePEc:hhs:sunrpe:2006_0007
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    Cited by:

    1. Hasbi, Maude & Dubus, Antoine, 2019. "Determinants of Mobile Broadband Use in Developing Economies: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa," 30th European Regional ITS Conference, Helsinki 2019 205180, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    2. Simplice A. Asongu & Nicholas Biekpe, 2017. "Government quality determinants of ICT adoption in sub-Saharan Africa," Netnomics, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 107-130, December.

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    Keywords

    Barriers to technology adoption; Institutions; Technology diffusion;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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