In EU countries, opening up of telecommunications markets and regulations have helped to reduce the price of digital … services which is an important quasi-input factor in all firms. Integrating the use of telecommunications in a macroeconomic … production function is the analytical starting point for our interdependent analysis of output, use of telecommunications and …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the … evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …