This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

Wachstumstreiber Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Moderne Kommunikationstechnologien sind für Industrienationen wie Deutschland bedeutende Handels- und Produktionsfaktoren. Deutschland hat ein großes Potenzial, mehr wirtschaftliches Wachstum durch eine stärkere Nutzung von...

Previous studies found the introduction of the today well established media radio and television to affect political participation. This paper evaluates the effect of the relatively recent introduction of a new medium, broadband internet. OLS resultssuggest a positive association between DSL...

This paper addresses the question of how the competitive situation in the downstream market, the services, and the innovative activity in the upstream market, the network infrastructure, interact. The focus is on the vertical structure of the telecommunication market, which is analysed in the...