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This paper examines the link between information technology (IT) and the U.S. productivity revival in the late 1990s. Industry-level data show a broad productivity resurgence that reflects both the production and the use of IT. The most IT-intensive industries experienced significantly larger...
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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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The objective of this paper is to review the experience of infrastructure regulation in low and middle income countries … infrastructure regulation in the low and middle income economies of the Asia region.An essential requirement for economic growth and … sustainable development is the provision of efficient, reliable and affordable infrastructure services, such as water and …
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Mit der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zum Länderfinanzausgleich steht auch die Berücksichtigung der Seehafenlasten der Küstenländer auf dem Prüfstand. Ökonomische Erwägungen sprechen dafür, die Belastungen dieser Länder durch Investitionen in die Hafeninfrastruktur künftig...
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Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on … infrastructure investment in telecommunications and the electricity sectors has a robust positive effect on long-term growth (but not …
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This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment. Yet, previous empirical work has...
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financial instruments, among others. This study presents in broad strokes a chronicle of infrastructure development in the … Philippines in the last twenty-five years. It covers the infrastructure experience across the Marcos regime to the Estrada …, inefficient government implementation of infrastructure projects, unclear policy and regulatory framework for private …
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infrastructure within South Africa. The approach builds upon previous work associated with the UNU-WIDER Development under Climate … road and building structures can be evaluated with the application of a new analysis system - the infrastructure planning …
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