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This paper explores the buyer-optimal information structures in a monopolistic screening context with nonlinear production technology. It shows that the buyer's optimal surplus may increase even when the production cost becomes more uncertain or when the efficient surplus decreases. Under a...
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is a better predictor of internet adoption than current development. A machine learning procedure supports the findings … paper, adopt the internet faster than those with less advanced ancestry. The analysis illustrates persistence over five … predicts 21st century internet adoption. A three-stage model including human capital around 1990, yields similar results …
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is a better predictor of internet adoption than current development. A machine learning procedure supports the findings … paper, adopt the internet faster than those with less advanced ancestry. The analysis illustrates persistence over five … predicts 21st century internet adoption. A three-stage model including human capital around 1990, yields similar results. …
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The Internet has significantly expanded worldwide, changing our relationship with the world, and the way we communicate …, has not escaped the Internet phenomenon, as the number of individuals with Internet access has risen from 2 in 2002 to 39 …
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"This book discusses how the Web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies can be effectively used by governments to enhance the efficiency and transparency of their functions including the provision of e-services and also discusses how these same technologies and tools can be used by the citizens to...
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In this paper we present a counterfactual evaluation of the effect of ICT resources at school on student achievements conducted in Italy. In 2009 156 classes at 6th grade were endowed with additional resources earmarked for purchasing ICT equipments only. By selecting an equivalent number of...
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