This paper presents a methodology for quantifying the benefits and costs of telecommunications to various stakeholder groups. The stakeholders are differentiated by age (elderly), income (high income and low income) and geography (urban and rural). The analysis suggests that there are...

A two-way causal relationship between telecommunications infrastructure investment and economic development, established for the US economy in previous analysis, is tested at the more localized state and sub-state level and for two specific sub-categories of telecommunications infrastructure...

Time series analyses of 31 years of US data (1958-88, inclusive) were consistent with two causal hypotheses. First, the level of US economic activity at any point in time is a reliable predictor ('cause') of the amount of US telecommunications investment at a later point in time. Second, the...

Given the weakening economic performance of the USA in recent years, productivity growth has become increasingly the focus of discussions by policy makers at both the federal and state level. While much attention has been directed towards the institutional and social causes underlying stagnant...

The impact of technological advances in telecommunication service production over the interval 1963-1982 upon the prices of telecommunication services and other categories of commodity output is calculated and compiled to show effects upon broader price indices, the wholesale price index (WPI)...