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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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Cluster Policy: Principles and a Toolbox
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Cluster policy has become a method of choice for economic policymakers in many nations and regions in both industrialized and developing countries. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the policy is being perceived by politicians and practitioners as a way to anchor economic activity in locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110962
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Introduction and Diffusion of Electronic Commerce – What is Switzerland’s position in an international comparison? Results of an empirical study
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
What is Switzerland’s position today with regard to the acceptance, diffusion and usage of new work forms and business methods in the economy and society? One of the most extensive international surveys of population and businesses done thus far gives well founded answers to these questions:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836888
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ICT ve veřejné správě a SMB sektoru: Čtyři roky nových výzev
Vymetal, Dominik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Four years of EU membership has brought new opportunities and challenges for local companies and public administration in member countries. New small and medium companies (SMB) emerged in the neighboring regions cross over the former frontiers, there are new clusters using inter-regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621748
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SOUTH-SOUTH REGIONALISM AND TRADE COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study of regional South-South (S-S) trade and cooperation in East, South and South-East Asian countries (ESSEA) aims to provide an economic rationale for S-S trade; shed some light on the extent and pattern of S-S trade in the ESSEA region; examine the dynamic forces behind the expansion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835384
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Exportinduziertes Wachstum als Chance für die „nächsten Tiger“?
Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing … of Japan, the Tiger states and China with their respective strategies of industrial policy and export-led growth. Is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257823
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Why did the energy intensity fall in China's industrial sector in the 1990s? the relative importance of structural change and intensity change
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787142
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Enhancing technological progress in a market-socialist context:China's national innovation system at the crossroads
Gabriele, Alberto; Khan, Ali Haider - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyzes the available evidence of China's S&T, R&D, and innovative capabilities, to provide an assessment … policy suggestions aimed at improving China's overall innovation strategy. Our approach focuses particularly on the evolving … relationship between China's NSI and the country's overall market socialist social and economic system - both of which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789290
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Fiscal policy, public expenditure composition and growth. theory and empirics
Willi, Semmlero; Alfred, Greiner; Bobo, Diallo; Anand, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper responds to the development policy debate involving the World Bank and the IMF on the use of fiscal policy not only for economic stabilization but also to promote economic growth and increase per capita income. A key issue in this debate relates to the effect of the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418512
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Congestion pricing, infrastructure investment and redistribution
Russo, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We study congestion pricing by a government that has redistributive concerns, in the presence of optimal income taxation. Individuals differ in (unobservable) earning ability and consumption technology for commodities using a congestible network (e.g. roads, Internet). We find, assuming...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839208