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Competition in the German broadband access market
Vanberg, Margit A. - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428533
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Industrial blackmail : dynamic tax competiton and public investment
King, Ian Paul; McAfee, Randolph Preston; Welling, Linda A. - 1992
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000970206
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Fiscal space and public sector investments in infrastructure : a Brazilian case-study
Afonso, José Roberto; Araujo, Erika Amorim; Biasoto … - 2015
The Brazilian experience is of particular interest as a case study into the fiscal scope for public sector investments, especially in infrastructure. Brazil has one of the highest tax burdens in the world and, at the same time, the public sector has been registering a historic low in investment,...
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Technological change and domestic outsourcing
Bergeaud, Antonin; Malgouyres, Clément; … - 2021
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Home broadband and human capital formation
Sanchis-Guarner, Rosa; Montalbán, José; Weinhardt, Felix - 2024
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Remote work across jobs, companies and space
Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Hansen, Stephen; … - 2023
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Political electoral cycles and public investments in Brazil
Orair, Rodrigo Octávio; Gouvêa, Raphael Rocha; Leal, … - 2015
This paper provides new evidence for the empirical literature that investigates the presence of political cycles in fiscal policy and, more precisely, public investments in Brazil. The approach differs from most of the studies for applying the state-space modeling. The greatest benefit is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057055
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A retrospective study on the regional benefits and spillover effects of high-speed broadband networks : evidence from German counties
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Gugler, Klaus - 2019 - This version: May 2019
There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth … economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within and across neighbouring counties in Germany. Utilizing a balanced … the availability of high-speed broadband (which enables transfer rates of 50 Mbit/sec and higher) has a small but …
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Leader behavior and the natural resource curse
Caselli, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2009
We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy's total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867963
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Volkswirtschaftliche Bewertung öffentlicher Investitionen
Corneo, Giacomo - 2015
Drei Probleme der Risikobewertung bei öffentlichen Investitionen werden behandelt. Erstes Thema ist die Frage nach der richtigen Diskontrate bei unsicherem Wirtschaftswachstum. Zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass die übliche Ramsey-Gleichung bei Unsicherheit keine Gültigkeit mehr hat und einer...
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