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There is a considerable gap in the level of the Internet access charges among countries because of the history of the Internet use, current status of the Internet infrastructure, the Internet penetration rate, and so on. Low Internet access charge increases the number of the Internet users and the Internet penetration rate, which boosts economic activities. This paper empirically explores the impacts of the internet access charges on economic activities using a cross-country analysis based on data from 76 countries for the year 1998-2001. To this end, several versions of the neoclassical growth models, explicitly including the internet access charges, are estimated with the GDP used for a proxy for economic activities and the level of Internet access charges considered as an input to production. Subject to the appropriate caveats, the results show that the level of the Internet access charges make a significantly negative effect on economic activities. In other words, it is concluded that low Internet access charges of a county increase economic activities and the increased economic activities in turn raise the real income of the county.

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저자

• 유승훈 [ Seoung Hoon Yoo | 호서대학교 경상학부 ]
• 양창영 [ Chang Young Yang | 호서대학교 경상학부 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  디지털융복합연구 [Journal of Digital Convergence]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  2713-6434

• eISSN

  2713-6442

• 수록기간

  2003~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재후보

• 십진분류

  KDC 569 DDC 620