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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
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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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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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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