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Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Capacity

Gailmard, Sean; Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

in (relationship specific) policy expertise, and may be either policy-motivated or policy-indifferent. We show that under … specific conditions on the nature of expertise and bureaucratic discretion over policy choices, merit system protections for … job tenure encourage the development of expertise and problem solving capacity in the bureaucracy. In addition, we …

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Broadband: Europe needs more than DSL

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

Efficient broadband technologies such as DSL, fibre, cable modem, powerline communications, UMTS, WLAN or WiMax are …

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Information Technology and Australia’s Productivity Surge

Parham, Dean; Roberts, Paul; Sun, Haishun - EconWPA - 2001

This paper finds that the rapid update of information and communication technologies contributed to Australia’s strong productivity performance in the 1990s and the contribution to labour productivity growth was at least as strong as it was in the US. Australia generated a productivity...

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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 …

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Communications Policy, Media Development, and Convergence

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

spending per adult media hour. The contrast between communications policy and the reality of media development is not merely a …

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Radiocommunications

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

On 16 July 2001 the Assistant Treasurer referred a range of legislation and associated regulations relating to spectrum management processes which are provided for under radiocommunications and other legislation, for inquiry and report.The Commission made a series of recommendations designed to...

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International Financial Markets Integration or Segmentation: A Case Study of Equity Markets

Guha, Puja; Daga, Shivani; Gulati, Richa; Bhupal, Ganita; … - EconWPA - 2004

Over the past 15 years, financial markets have become increasingly global. The relationship among the equity markets of the developed and the emerging countries has been examined extensively in the literature. This paper studies the interdependence among the major stock markets of the world....

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International Asset Pricing and World Market Integration : Evidence from a Partially Integrated ICAPM with Asymmetric Effects.

Hedi, Arouri Mohamed El - EconWPA - 2004

This paper tests a partially Segmented ICAPM using an asymmetric multivariate GARCH specification for two developed markets, two emerging markets and World market. We find that this asymmetric process provides a significantly better fit of the data than a standard symmetric process. The evidence...

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The Effects of Job and Housing Location on Race/Gender Wage Differentials in Milwaukee: Testing the `Network Hypothesis'

Drago, Robert - EconWPA - 1994

This study considers the joint role of job and housing location as they affect the earnings of different race and gender groups. Building on Wial's (1991) case study of networks in Boston which distribute good jobs, the `network hypothesis' suggests that the channels which distribute high wage...

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Microfinance Market Niches and Client Profiles in Bolivia

Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio; Meyer, Richard L.; Navajas, Sergio - EconWPA - 2001

This paper presents and interprets descriptive statistics generated from data obtained in a survey of clients of five microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia. These lenders represent different combinations of organizational design, lending technology, and market area...

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