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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Czernich, Nina - 2012
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116573
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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - CESifo - 2009
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572478
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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood
Dreher, Axel - 2017
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961083
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl‐Johan - 2015
What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012535
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Prioritization vs. Zero-Rating : Discrimination on the Internet
Gautier, Axel - 2018
This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both … violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910616
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Broadband Internet : An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - 2021
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315898
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Returns to ICT Skills
Falck, Oliver - 2016
induced variation in broadband Internet availability that gives rise to variation in ICT skills across countries and German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997356
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Autocratic Transitions and Growth
Nannicini, Tommaso - 2010
In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology – synthetic control methods – to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147271
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995197
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Robust Growth Determinants
Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2011
This paper investigates the robustness of determinants of economic growth in the presence of model uncertainty, parameter heterogeneity and outliers. The robust model averaging approach introduced in the paper uses a flexible and parsimonious mixture modeling that allows for fat-tailed errors...
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