The Good have a Website: Evidence on website premia for firms from 18 European countries
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This paper uses firm level data from the World Bank Enterprise surveys conducted in 2019 in 18 European countries to investigate the link between having a website andfirm characteristics. We find that firms which are present in the web are larger, older, more  productive,  and  more  often  exporters,  product  innovators,  process  innovatorsand (partly) foreign owned firms than firms without a website. The estimated website premia  are  statistically  highly  significant  ceteris  paribus  after  controlling  for  country and  sector  of  economic  activity.  Furthermore,  the  size  of  these  premia  can  be considered to be large. Good firms tend to have a website. 
| Original language | English | 
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| Place of Publication | Lüneburg | 
| Publisher | Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg | 
| Number of pages | 12 | 
| Publication status | Published - 17.04.2021 | 
- Economics - Website premia, firm characteristics, World Bank Enterprise Surveys
 
