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Djankov, Simeon - 2001

We examine the patterns of media ownership in 97 countries around the world. We find that almost universally the … largest media firms are owned by the government or by private families. Government ownership is more pervasive in broadcasting … than in the printed media. Government ownership of the media is generally associated with less press freedom, fewer …

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Pop Internationalism : Has A Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?

Ferreira, Fernando - 2010

Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...

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Infrastruktur in einer mobilen Gesellschaft

Köhler, Stefan (contributor) - 2007

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Infrastruktur in einer mobilen Gesellschaft

Köhler, Stefan (ed.) - 2007

Die Standortwahl und die Ausstattung von Infrastruktureinrichtungen steht in vielfältigen und vor allem wechselseitigen Beziehungen zur Entwicklung der Mobilität. Verkehrliche Erreichbarkeit und zunehmend auch die Anbindungsmöglichkeiten an moderne und hochleistungsfähige Informations- und...

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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The Economic Impact of Universities : Evidence from Across the Globe

Valero, Anna - 2016

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000 universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th Century. We estimate fixed effects models at the sub-national level between 1950 and 2010 and find that increases in the...

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