Chapter 1. Civilizations -- Part I. Applied Econometrics -- Chapter 2. A Different Approach to Deriving Price and Income Elasticities: Applications to Telecommunications -- Chapter 3. A Cross-Country Analysis of ICT: Diffusion & Global Competitiveness -- Chapter 4. Adoption of E-Commerce by...

This study explores the causal relationships between information and communications technology (ICT) and economic growth. It spans the post-Great Recession period of 2008-2017, which is both a period of economic tumult and slow recovery but also significant pathbreaking developments in ICT...

Facebook and Google and other internet giants are multisided markets (MSM). The user-side of the market, prices are zero - "free." On the other side of the market, Facebook's and Google's revenues are derived from advertising which appears when the users click on advertisers' web sites. They can...

The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years and we are still wrestling over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local exchange carriers, as well as for universal service funding. With...

Overview: The Future of Telecommunications, media, and technology -- Prologue I: Research Demands on Demand Research -- Prologue II: Lester Taylor’s Insights -- Advances in Theory -- Regression with a Two-Dimensional Dependent Variable -- Piecewise Linear L1 Modeling -- Empirical Applications:...