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Supply and demand for telecommunication infrastructure
Veith, Tobias - 2010
to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …
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Interest rates, sanitation infrastructure, and mortality decline in nineteenth-century England and Wales
Chapman, Jonathan - 2021
This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data...
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From institutions to financial development and growth : what are the links?
Fernández, Andrés; Tamayo, César E. - 2015
This paper presents an integrated overview of the literature linking institutions, financial development and economic growth. From the large body of research on institutional development, the paper first selects those contributions that make it possible to study the role of institutional...
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Property rights and economic freedom: an econometric analysis
Van, Germinal G. - 2020
The purpose of this paper is to establish a positive correlation between property rights and economic freedom. It seeks to demonstrate that property rights lead to economic freedom. From a purely theoretical perspective, it has been assumed that greater access to property rights leads to...
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Improving transport and energy infrastructure investment in Poland
Goujard, Antoine - 2016
Poland has significantly upgraded its infrastructure network over the past decade. However, bottlenecks still weigh on productivity growth and environmental and health outcomes. The EU 2014-20 programming period is an opportunity to improve the management of infrastructure investment. In the...
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Strengthening competition in Poland
Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014
sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …
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Competitiveness and growth of the Mexican economy
Chiquiar, Daniel; Ramos-Francia, Manuel - 2009
We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the "lost decade" of the eighties, but also with supply-side features of the...
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Chinese and Japanese infrastructure investment in Southeast Asia : from rivalry to cooperation?
Zhao, Hong - 2018
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Infrastructure investments and regulation in telecommunications
Graack, Cornelius - 1997
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