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call-takers and ambulance dispatchers using the single telephone number 911. Enhanced 911 is characterized by … telecommunications equipment and information technology which identifies the location of emergency callers. We begin by exploring the … factors as well as population and density of a county. Then, using a database of cardiac patients in Pennsylvania in 1995, we …
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We analyze a national sample of Americans with respect to their debt literacy, financial experiences, and their judgments about the extent of their indebtedness. Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial...
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demand and the dynamic interaction between the two in the context of the U.S. telecommunications industry over an extended … on the cost structure, employment and capital formation of the telecommunications industry in the U.S …
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AT&T was the largest U.S. firm for most of the 20th century. Telephone operators once comprised over 50% of its … workforce, but in the late 1910s it initiated a decades-long process of automating telephone operation with mechanical call …
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We study the trade-offs faced by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that serve as platforms through which consumers access both television and internet services. As online streaming video improves, these providers may respond by attempting to steer consumers away from streaming video toward their...
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to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital …
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Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining...
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allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …
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This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....
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' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
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