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Internet gambling: testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representa...

Roseman, Louise L. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008

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On the effect of the Internet on international trade

Freund, Caroline L.; Weinhold, Diana - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

The Internet stimulates trade. Using a gravity equation of trade among 56 countries, we find no evidence of an effect … of the Internet on total trade flows in 1995 and only weak evidence of an effect in 1996. However, we find an increasing … that the effect of the Internet on trade has been stronger for poor countries than for rich countries, and that there is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005712775

Internet gambling: testimony before the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representa...

Roseman, Louise L. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005512686

IT investment and Hicks' composite-good theorem: the U.S. experience

Marquez, Jaime; Wang, Shing-Yi - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2003

We study whether aggregation residuals in U.S. private investment in information technology (IT) exhibit a predictable pattern that is consistent with Hicks' composite-good theorem and that may be used for forecasting. To determine whether one can extract such a pattern, we apply the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368144

International comparisons of productivity growth: the role of information technology and regulatory practices

Gust, Christopher; Marquez, Jaime - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2002

While information technologies (IT) are credited with the recent acceleration in productivity in the United States, many other industrial countries have not experienced a pickup in productivity growth. To explain this productivity divergence, we use panel data from 1992 to 1999 for 13 industrial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005372583

Health care finance and the early adoption of hospital information systems

Borzekowski, Ron - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2002

This study examines the adoption of hospital information systems (HIS), specifically focusing on the connection between the financing of health care and the adoption of these new technologies. Using a recently uncovered dataset detailing the systems installed at over 2300 hospitals, the results...

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Information technology and productivity: where are we now and where are we going?

Oliner, Stephen D.; Sichel, Daniel E. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2002

Productivity growth in the U.S. economy jumped during the second half of the 1990s, a resurgence that many analysts linked to information technology (IT). However, shortly after this consensus emerged, demand for IT products fell sharply, leading to a lively debate about the connection between...

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Measuring the cost impact of hospital information systems: 1987-1994

Borzekowski, Ron - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2002

This study measures the impact of information technology (IT) use on hospital operating costs during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Using a proprietary eight-year panel dataset (1987-1994) that catalogues application-level automation for the complete census of the 3,000 U.S. hospitals with...

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The resurgence of growth in the late 1990s: is information technology the story?

Oliner, Stephen D.; Sichel, Daniel E. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

The performance of the U.S. economy over the past several years has been remarkable, including a rebound in labor productivity growth after nearly a quarter century of sluggish gains. To assess the role of information technology in the recent rebound, this paper re-examines the growth...

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Explaining a productive decade

Oliner, Stephen D.; Daniel E. Sichel.; Stiroh, Kevin J. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2007

This paper analyzes the sources of U.S. productivity growth in recent years using both aggregate and industry-level data. We confirm the central role for information technology (IT) in the productivity revival during 1995-2000 and show that IT played a significant, though smaller, role after...

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