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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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The Impact of News, Oil Prices, and International Spillovers on Russian Financial Markets

Hayo, Bernd; Kutan, Ali - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyzes the impact of news, oil prices, and international financial market developments on daily returns on … stock market returns. Fourth, there is a significant economic and statistical influence of a specific type of news on the … Russian bond market: Positive (negative) news related to the energy sector raise (lower) daily returns by one percentage point …

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The Impact of News, Oil Prices, and Global Market Developments on Russian Financial Markets

Hayo, Bernd; Kutan, Ali - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyzes the impact of news, oil prices, and international financial market developments on daily returns on … Russian bond and stock markets. First, regarding returns, energy news affects returns, while news from the war in Chechnya is … not significant. Market volatility does not appear to be sensitive to either type of news. Second, a significant effect of …

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Heterogeneity in Price Rigidity: Evidence from a Case Study Using Micro-Level Data

Levy, Daniel; Dutta, Shantanu; Bergen, Mark - EconWPA - 2004

We combine two data sets to study price rigidity. The first consists of weekly time series of retail, wholesale, and spot prices for twelve products. These time series contain two exogenous cost shocks. We find that prices exhibit more rigidity in response to the second shock than the first. The...

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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown …

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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 … to those with little media exposure or schooling, individuals watching Arab news channels or educated in schools with … providing the information. Consistent with the latter, we find that overall intensity of media use and level of education have …

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MODELLING HOUSEHOLD CHOICES OF DWELLING AND LOCAL PUBLIC

Colombino, Ugo; Locatelli, Marilena - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper we present some results of a research project to develop and estimate a micro-econometric model of residential choice. The model is applied to a sample of Italian chief towns of district. The choice is assumed to depend on household characteristics, income, structural and...

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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan

Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004

Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...

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