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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions. We estimate production functions where firms can change their … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides …
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together tasks; comparative advantage stimulates unbundling and specialisation. The estimates suggest that on average the … Netherlands has witnessed unbundling in the period 1996-2005, which implies that advantages of specialisation have increased …
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This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
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This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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This study investigates the political economy of industrialization in Ethiopia. It discusses the economic and political institutions during three political regimes and assesses the industrial sector's performance across these different regimes. Further, it evaluates the different industrial...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
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of this market: marriage rates. Exploring sharp temporal and geographic variation in the pattern of consumer broadband …
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question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly …
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This paper estimates the impacts of mobile broadband coverage on household consumption and poverty in Nigeria, the … largest economy and mobile broadband market in Africa. The analysis exploits a unique dataset that integrates three waves of a … the deployment of mobile broadband (3G and 4G) coverage between 2010 and 2016. The estimates show that mobile broadband …
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