This paper examines the impact of mass media and information andcommunications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures oneconomic development. The results strongly suggest that both mass me-dia and ICT penetration are negatively associated with corruption. Thisresult holds across...

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity,namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strictemployment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a twosectormatching model where firms...

Community support and (location-based) mobile services are two prominent topics in research and development currently. However, they are usually not combined - there is little work on mobile community support services.(...)