Abstract
This thesis seeks to estimate the impact of internet availability on international trade using a theoretically consistent model of international trade and statistically sound estimation techniques. Specifically, it is hypothesized that an increase in any two countries' populations' ability to communicate over the internet will lead to an increase in bilateral trade flows between them, ceteris paribus. This hypothesis is tested using the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator to estimate a reduced form specification of the gravity model. It is estimated that an increase in internet availability will result in an increase in exports to OECD countries, though the magnitudes of these increases depend on whether the exporting country is an OECD or non-OECD country.