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This paper offers both a conceptual and an operationalmodel that aims to map out the causes and implicationsof ICT … describe and test the rela-tionships between perceptions of the city, policy makers'beliefs about ICT and the associated urban … ICT policy.According to the model, respondents that perceive theircity as having many urban functions (e …
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Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools topromote and realize a variety of public … goals and policies. The growing importance of ICT indaily life, business activities and govemance prompts the need to … consider the role of ICTmore explicitIy in urban administrations and policies. What are the city maker's expectationsabout ICT …
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Innovations in information and communication technologies (ICT) in recent decades have had profound implications for …
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ICT-services, transportation, and local development, among others, an increasing number of destinations is competing to …
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to advanced ICT sources) on the residents’ valuation of cultural heritage. Based on an extensive survey among inhabitants …
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This paper models strategic interactions between a product supplier, a provider of information about product quality, and end users, in the context of road transportation. Using a game-theoretical analysis of suppliers' pricing strategies, we assess the social welfare effects of traffic...
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In a circular city model, I consider network design and pricing decisions for asingle fast transport connection that faces competition from a slower but betteraccessible transport mode. To access the fast transport network individuals haveto make complementary trips by slow mode. This fact has...
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What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
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series of detailed regional facilitating and driving factors related, inter alia, to talent, innovation, skills, networks …
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Accepted for publication in the <I>Journal of Development Economics</I>.<P> This paper introduces the Small World model (Watts and Strogatz, Nature, 1998) into the theory of economic growth and investigates how increasing economic integration affects firm size and efficiency, norm enforcement, and...</p></i>
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