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Situngkir, Hokky - EconWPA - 2004

anthropological analysis of socio-political system in Indonesia. This fact accentuates a character of robustness in Indonesian …

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission …

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076613

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

course of their daily lives. By the mid- 1920s, print media alone were highly successful in creating new consumer visions and … spending per adult media hour. The contrast between communications policy and the reality of media development is not merely a …-and-controlled media can be an important policy lever for overcoming this opposition and promoting the growth of more diverse media …

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De-industrialisation III

Stanners, Walter - EconWPA - 2002

The author of this note takes it as self evident that prosperity and the provision of "things" (buildings, roads, furniture, furnishings, clothes, machines and equipment of all sorts) go together. The way people generally speak and act is in line with this view. If this is so, domestic...

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Media, Education, and anti-Americanism in the Muslim World

Gentzkow, Matthew A.; Shapiro, Jesse M. - EconWPA - 2004

11, 2001. Using data from 9 predominantly Muslim countries, we study how such beliefs depend on exposure to news media … providing the information. Consistent with the latter, we find that overall intensity of media use and level of education have … to those with little media exposure or schooling, individuals watching Arab news channels or educated in schools with …

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Broadcasting

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002

In 1999, the Commonwealth Government referred the Broadcasting Services Act and related legislation to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within twelve months. The inquiry stems from the Government’s commitment under the Competition Principles Agreement to review legislation...

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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Does Rapid Liberalization Increase Corruption?

Tavares, Samia - EconWPA - 2005

stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both …

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