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Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development
Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of transaction costs on economic welfare and development. We extend the static model of Romer (1994), in which transaction costs reduce welfare by the reducing the equilibrium number of intermediate goods, and estimate the welfare losses in the case of domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616794
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Internet für alle? Die Diskussion des »digital divide« revisited
Krings, Bettina; Riehm, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Die Diskussion um das digital divide oder die digitale Spaltung, wie sie für den deutschsprachigen Raum übersetzt wird, wird nun schon seit nahezu zehn Jahren intensiv geführt.1 Vor allem im Rahmen der politischen Diskussion hat sich das Bedrohungsszenario einer digitalen Spaltung innerhalb...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617201
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Internet Kiosks in Rural India: What Influences Success?
Kendall, Jake; Singh, Nirvikar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
-Logue, a franchise of over 1000 locally-owned, Internet kiosks in rural villages in India. We seek to assess how this new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790263
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Technology Convergence and Digital Divides. A Country-Level Evidence for the Period 2000-2010
Lechman, Ewa - 2015
The paper, mostly empirical in nature, investigates issues on cross-national new information and communication technologies (ICTs) adoption patterns and growth directions. In the period of 2000-2010, a great number of countries underwent substantial changes on the field of ICTs implementation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147305
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Can a click buy a little happiness? The impact of business-to-consumer e-commerce on subjective well-being
Sabatini, Fabio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) carried out by the Bank of Italy. Probit, OLS regressions and … analysis relies on an Italian nationally and regionally representative dataset from Italy (n = 4,130) drawn from the 2008 wave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223347
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The role of the external auditor in bank regulation and supervision: A comparative analysis between the UK, Germany, Italy and the US
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in … the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also … role which the Bank of England has assumed since banking regulatory and supervisory powers and functions were transferred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226824
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The role of the external auditor in bank regulation and supervision: A comparative analysis between the UK, Germany, Italy and the US (Third Edition: Financial Crises, Enron and No...
Ojo; Roedl, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Up until 1989, there existed “the Big Eight” accountancy firms namely the eight major international accountancy firms, Arthur Young (AY), Ernst & Whinney (EW), Deloitte Haskins & Sells (DHS) ,Touche Ross (TR), Price Waterhouse, Coopers and Lybrand, Arthur Andersen and KPMG. At present, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647333
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The role of the external auditor in bank regulation and supervision: A comparative analysis
Ojo, Marianne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in … the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also … role which the Bank of England has assumed since banking regulatory and supervisory powers and functions were transferred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055487
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Social capital and views on suicide via the internet: a study using survey data
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
individuals’ views about suicide as conveyed via the Internet. Furthermore, this paper compared the effects of social capital … Internet for a companion with whom to commit suicide. However, such a relation is not observed between social capital in the … externality of suicidal thoughts conveyed via the Internet. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271687
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Бизнес моделиране в електронната търговия
Bonev, Pavlin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper aims at presenting an in-depth review of the new economic relationships associated with the advent of e-commerce in the daily lives of consumers in Bulgaria, which greatly contributes to change and adapt to the modern business environment as well as to the new processes. In the paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258864