The diffusion of modern, efficient technology has far-reaching consequences for the geography of economic activity …. To investigate these claims we use event-history analysis to estimate the determinants of diffusion speed across a large … developed countries. Trade openness is also found to influence the rate of diffusion positively for all three technologies. Yet …

the return process and generate stochastic volatilities from two different sources, the jump component and the diffusion …

This is a monograph that presents both a comprehensive literature review and original research results on the diffusion … and the implications of e-business technologies. The diffusion of e-business technologies among firms is regarded as part …

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first …. In particular, we show that a micro-founded union will never find it profitable to co- operate with the Government …

indicate that the original results are not very robust and the relationship between government size and output volatility is …