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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522665
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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"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821080
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Speeding up the internet : regulation and investment in European fiber optic infrastructure
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017
heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687904
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The internet effects on sex crime and murder : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
Diegmann, André - 2017
the question of whether highspeed internet leads to higher/lower sex crime offences and murder. I use unique German data … on criminal offences and broadband internet measured at the municipality level to shed light on the question. In order to … address endogeneity in broadband internet availability, I follow Falck et al. (2014) and exploit technical peculiarities at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748544
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Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? : evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Diegmann, André; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2018
. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the …-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863973
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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? : evidence from EU countries
Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 2014
Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416341
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ICT and economic growth : comparing developing, emerging and developed countries
Niebel, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458249
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Intangible assets and investments at the sector level : empirical evidence for Germany
Crass, Dirk; Licht, Georg; Peters, Bettina - 2014
This paper investigates the role intangible capital plays for economic growth in different sectors in Germany. It consists of two major parts. In the first part, we aim at measuring investment in intangibles at the sector level. We shed light on differences across sectors but also compare these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385066
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The contribution of intangible assets to sectoral productivity growth in the EU
Niebel, Thomas; O'Mahony, Mary; Saam, Marianne - 2013
In this paper we report on new data on intangible investment at the level of 1-digit NACE industries of 10 EU countries. The data are constructed as a sectoral breakdown of the INTANInvest database, which contains measures of intangible investment at the level of the aggregate business sector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787409
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2016
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
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