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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s
Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003
An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
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Communications Policy, Media Development, and Convergence
Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003
In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134492
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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings
Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118996
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Investigating the distribution of the value of travel time savings
Fosgerau, Mogens - EconWPA - 2004
The distribution of the value of travel time savings (VTTS) is investigated employing various nonparametric techniques …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119038
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Scaling transformation and probability distributions for financial time series
BRACHET, Marc-Etienne; TAFLIN, Erik; TCHEOU, Jean Marcel - EconWPA - 1999
The price of financial assets are, since Bachelier, considered to be described by a (discrete or continuous) time … physics. Using two sets of financial chronological time series, we show that the scaling transformation is a non-linear group …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408269
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Stochastic Dominance Portfolio Analysis of Forestry Assets
Heikkinen, V.-P.; Kuosmanen, Timo - EconWPA - 2002
general Stochastic Dominance (SD) criteria, focusing on the recent theoretical advances in analyzing portfolio diversification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134874
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International Portfolio Investment: Theory, Evidence, and Institutional Framework
Bartram, Sohnke M.; Dufey, Gunter - EconWPA - 2001
other countries, hedge their consumption basket against ex-change rate risk, realize diversification effects and take …
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Determinants of Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Livelihood Strategies in Rural Communities: Evidence from Eastern Nigeria
Adi, A. Bongo - EconWPA - 2005
the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture as well as the manner in which different agro …-ecological determinants affect such diversification. The probability of participating in non-agricultural activities was estimated in an …-climactic variables were found to determine the nature of diversification. Against the backdrop of the recent deagrarianisation thesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135001
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Intercity Trade and the Industrial Diversification of Cities
Anas, Alex; Xiong, Kai - EconWPA - 2003
The industrial diversification of cities is explained without imposing linkages among industries. In each of two city … diversification. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062501
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Managing biodiversity correctly - Efficient portfolio management as an effective way of protecting species
Figge, Frank - EconWPA - 2004
Loss of biodiversity is regarded as one of the key problems affecting the environment. In order to demonstrate the significance of biodiversity, the value of individual species or ecosystems today is generally determined in science and practice. The underlying thought is that a species or...
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