Internet and the offline world

Avi Goldfarb

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Abstract: This article emphasises that a key to understanding the (net) benefits of the Internet is to remember that all online activity has an offline context. People live their lives offline. Therefore, the fall in communication costs and the fall in distribution costs associated with the diffusion of the Internet had a heterogeneous impact across locations.

Keywords: agglomeration; communication costs; distribution costs; e-commerce; Internet; online; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L81 L86 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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