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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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Telecommunications Adoption and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : Do Levels of Development Matter?
Chakraborty, Chandana - 2010
This paper assesses the growth impact of telecommunications infrastructure investment in developing countries by subjecting country specific data on mainline tele-density and per capita growth to Granger causality test within a panel cointegration framework. The results suggest that growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014197905
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Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Growth : Evidence from Developing Countries
Sridhar, Kala Seetharam - 2015
In this study, we investigate empirically the relationship between telephone penetration and economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equations that endogenizes economic growth and telecom penetration. We find that the traditional economic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750123
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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and …
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444046
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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...
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Go for gigabit? : first evidence on economic benefits of (ultra-)fast broadband technologies in Europe
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Gugler, Klaus - 2018
The literature on the effects of telecommunications infrastructure investments find positive macroeconomic effects, however, it is severely constrained because it could hitherto only analyze investment up to "basic" broadband but not up to the newer generations of "fast" and "ultra-fast"...
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Impact of economic reform on the Nigerian telecommunications sector
Babatunde, Onakoya Adegbemi - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 141-154
In the early days of nationalization, it seemed axiomatic that price and quality standards could be better managed by State Owned Enterprises (SOE). Subsequent experience, however demonstrates that public ownership and control are different as the challenges of imposing effective public...
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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...
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