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The impact of regulation and competition on the migration from old to new communications infrastructure : recent evidence from EU27 member states

Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2014

policies and competition controlling for relevant supply and demand side factors. Our econometric model employs dynamic panel … impact on investment in new infrastructure. Furthermore, infrastructure-based competition from mobile operators and the …

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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015

regulatory holidays or geographically differentiated regulations, ii) deregulatory approaches based on effective competition law … of access regulations exist, whereas only a much smaller branch of literature addresses the impact of competition … in grey areas, if there is sufficient pressure from competitive outside options and if competition law is strong. Finally …

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Did Africa's first choices matter? : growth legacies of leaders at independence

Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...

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Legitimacy and the cost of government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2019

While the association between economic freedom and long-run economic growth is well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full of conflicting findings. In this paper, we take a step towards reconciling the two literatures by...

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The French curse? : on the puzzling economic consequences of French colonization

Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Guenther - 2018

More than 50 years after independence, the majority of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa remain poor with limited rates of economic growth. One of the most striking features of economic development on the sub-Saharan subcontinent is the remarkably poor performance of French colonies relative to...

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The effect of elections on economic growth : results from a natural experiment in Indonesia

Moricz, Sara; Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2014

Does democracy increase economic growth? Previous literature tends to find a positive effect but does also suffer from possible endogeneity problems: democratization is typically not random and might be affected by factors that also have an impact on economic growth. This paper narrows down the...

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Entrepreneurship, institutuions and economic dynamism : lessons from a comparison of the United States and Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012

The purpose of this research endeavor - in the form of eight articles - to be published in 2013 in a Special Section of Industrial and Corporate Change is to further our understanding of the extent, character and orientation of entrepreneurial activity in today's wealthy countries. This is done...

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Government size and growth : a survey and interpretation of the evidence

Bergh, Andreas; Henrekson, Magnus - 2011 - This version: 14 April 2011

The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach - of limiting the focus to studies of the...

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The rise, fall and revival of the Swedish welfare state : what are the policy lessons from Sweden?

Bergh, Andreas - 2011

This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden's economic and political development: How did Sweden become rich? What explains Sweden's high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden's problems from 1970 to 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis...

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