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The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services
Athey, Susan - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472216
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Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463839
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The Changing Structure of Cost and Demand for the U.S. Telecommunications Industry
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1996
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473008
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Organizational Frictions and Increasing Returns to Automation : Lessons from AT&T in the Twentieth Century
Feigenbaum, James J.; Gross, Daniel P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794608
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Steering Incentives of Platforms : Evidence from the Telecommunications Industry
McManus, Brian - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481667
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Irreversible Investment, Capital Costs and Productivity Growth : Implications for Telecommunications
Bernstein, Jeffrey I. - 2007
to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465382
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Shakeouts and Market Crashes
Barbarino, Alessandro - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468137
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Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition
Clarke, Richard N. - 2004
allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468211
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Liberalization in China's Key Service Sectors Following WTO Accession : Some Scenarios and Issues of Measurement
Whalley, John - 2003
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468551
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Differentiation Strategy and Market Deregulation : Local Telecommunication Entry in the Late 1990s
Greenstein, Shane - 2003
' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468937