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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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....

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Network Industries in the New Economy

John, McGee; Tanya, Sammut-Bonnici - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline the characteristics that distinguish knowledge-intensive industries from the general run of manufacturing and service businesses. Knowledge intensity and knowledge specialisation...

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Network Strategy in the Digital Economy

Sammut-Bonnici, Tanya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This chapter is concerned with the ‘new’ world of information technology and knowledge intensity. This is a world marked by big investments in R&D, different cost structures and significantly changed demand conditions. You should read this chapter in conjunction with Chapter 19, which deals...

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Green Noise or Green Value? Measuring the Price Effects of Environmental Certification in Commercial Buildings

Fuerst, Franz; McAllister, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Evaluating the environmental performance of a building is rapidly gaining importance as a metric in real estate investments. Since interpretation of the technical measurements is difficult and requires high expertise, investors tend to rely on markers as provided by environmental certification...

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A Life experiment of development Mountain tourism in Portugal observed from the point of view of theories of Complexity, Complication and Self-organization

Carvalho, Pedro G.; Sonis, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This paper is an attempt to use the ideas of deepening complexity and self organization theory to a life experiment in developing tourism in a Portuguese mountain region da Estrela.

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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. …

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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...

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