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von Engelhardt, Sebastian - 2008

Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …

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Patente in Europa und den USA: Veränderungen ab 1991 aufgezeigt an Gesamtzahlen und dem Technologiefeld des Ubiquitous Computing

Neuhäusler, Peter - 2008

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Activity, time, and subjective happiness: An analysis based on an hourly web survey

Sakawa, Hideaki; Ohtake, Fumio; Tsutsui, Yoshiro - 2015

This paper investigates how people's happiness depends on their current activities and on time. We conducted an hourly web survey, in which 70 students reported their happiness every hour on one day every month from December 2006 to February 2008. This method is an extension of the experience...

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Telecom Branding in Pakistan: Network Coverage or Value Added Services

Siddiqui, Kamran Ahmed; Ali, Mazhar; Sarki, Irshad Hussain - In: Academic Journal of Research in Economics and Management 3 (2015) 3, pp. 61-66

Purpose - This study explores the factors of telecom branding in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach - Survey methodology was used to collect the data and a total of 238 mobile phone users were interviewed for their telecom brand preferences. Findings - Exploratory factor analyses and cross...

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Study on Awareness Policies for Dissemination of Family Internet Rules by Libertarian-Paternalism

Saito, Nagayuki - 2018

In order to discuss the future direction of policy making for protecting children online, this paper discusses the effectiveness of protection policies based on libertarian paternalism from the standpoint of behavioral economics by referring to the efforts of the Kariya authorities, Aichi...

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Factors influencing the use of mobile phone for accessing agricultural marketing information by grape smallholder farmers in Tanzania

Nyagango, Alex I.; Sife, Alfred S.; Kazungu, Isaac - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 3, pp. 1-21

Grape farming is a significant part of agricultural production in the central region of Dodoma and contributes tremendously to improving the livelihood of farmers. Smallholder farmers in Tanzania have been encouraged to use mobile phones for agricultural purposes. Regrettably, the involvement...

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The use of the mobile phone in the rural zones of Peru

Franciskovic, Jubitza Mariana; Miralles, Francesc - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 26 (2021) 52, pp. 390-399

Purpose - The main objective of the research is to examine whether the possession and the consumption of the service of a mobile telephone by the families of rural zones has improved their wellbeing in the last 10 years (2007-2016). Design/methodology/approach - A quantitative analysis of panel...

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Does mobile phone technology reduce agricultural price distortions? Evidence from cocoa and coffee industries

Nsabimana, Aimable; Amuakwa-Mensah, Franklin - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-24

Agricultural price distortion which is the discrepancy between world market price of agricultural produce and price received by farmers as a result of market interventions by governments, either through subsidies or taxes or even trade protection systems, has received rare attention in the cocoa...

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The use of mobile phones and the heterogeneity of banana farmers in Rwanda

Kabirigi, Michel; Sekabira, Haruna; Sun, Zhanli; … - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 25 (2023) 6, pp. 5315-5335

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a key role in improving agricultural production, enhancing socio-ecological resilience, and mitigating rural poverty. However, the use of ICTs for agricultural development among smallholder farmers, especially in the least developed...

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Mobile telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth: Evidence from China

Ward, Michael R.; Zheng, Shilin - 2014

We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine fixed-line and mobile telephone subscription levels. We compare results across periods and regions that differ by the level of development. In addition, we develop a method...

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