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Low latency internet and economic growth : a simultaneous approach
Lüdering, Jochen - 2016
Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
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Low latency internet and economic growth : a simultaneous approach
Lüdering, Jochen - 2016
Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603835
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The Effect of Content on Global Internet Adoption and the Global 'Digital Divide'
Viard, V. Brian; Economides, Nicholas - 2013
A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189055
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Korea
Baek, Yongchun - 2004
Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444204
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Culture, diffusion, and economic development
Harutyunyan, Ani; Özak, Ömer - 2016
This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528503
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Growth effects of fiscal policies : a comparative analysis in a multi-country context
Brons, Martijn; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301152
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The role of total factor productivity growth in middle-income countries
Kim, Jungsuk; Park, Jungsoo - 2017
We examine the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in middle-income countries based on cross-country panel data for the period 1975-2014. We find that TFP growth contributed significantly to a country’s upward transition from middle-income to high-income country group. The TFP...
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On determinants of the economic growth of European countries during 2005-2015
Mazurek, Jiří - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 2, pp. 21-33
The aim of the paper is to examine the economic growth of 32 European countries from 2005 to 2015. This period was characterized by a strong growth prior to 2009, when the Great Recession started, and lasted until 2012-2013 in the majority of examined countries. The growth between 2005 and 2015...
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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective
Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016
Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...
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Demographic change, technological advances, and growth : a cross-country analysis
Park, Cyn-Young; Shin, Kwanho; Kikkawa, Aiko - 2020
This paper revisits the impact of population aging on economic growth. In order to understand the impact of population aging on economic growth, it is important to consider the changes in the entire age distribution of demography. Our empirical analysis indicates that a change in age...
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