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Market and Public Provision in the Presence of Human Capital Externalities

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper suggests that human capital externalities are important in determining whether goods and services should be privately or publicly provided. We study situations where that the cost incurred by an individual provider for providing quality is affected by the human capital of her...

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'Build It or Not': Normative and Positive Theories of Public-Private Partnerships

Martimort, David; Pouyet, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper analyzes whether the two tasks of building infrastructures which are socially useful and managing those assets should be bundled or not. When performances contracts can be written, both tasks should be performed altogether by the same firm when a better design of the infrastructure...

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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked...

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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …

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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

(ICT). But why have the same technologies not similarly increased Europe's labour productivity? This paper provides a … improvement in the ICT can yield significant increases in labour productivity if - and only if - the organization is drastically …

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European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview

Crafts, Nicholas; Toniolo, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper surveys the extensive literature on European economic growth since 1950. It presents an overview of comparative growth performance together with benchmarked growth accounting estimates. The growth experience is considered in terms of three periods, the Golden Age of 1950-73, the...

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Together but Apart: ICT and Productivity Growth in Israel

Lach, Saul; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … the success of the ICT sector. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on these twin developments. We use newly … constructed data on industry-level ICT investments between 1990 and 2003 and estimate production functions for manufacturing …

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The Demand for Coordination

Dessein, Wouter; Santos, Jesus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labour is...

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Mobile Phone Coverage and Producer Markets: Evidence from West Africa

Aker, Jenny; Fafchamps, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and reduced consumer prices for certain commodities. There are...

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The distinct effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on firm organization

Bloom, Nicholas; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on worker and plant manager autonomy and span of control. The theory suggests that information technology is a decentralizing force, whereas communication technology is a centralizing...

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