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illustrate its application through the case of university students in Scotland and determine the exogeneity of their expenditures … drawing on survey evidence. Students are a particularly useful example as we can analyse the difference in impacts between … individual student groups and how the impacts of students at particular institutions are influenced by the composition of the …
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, where students increase consumption where they study and reduce consumption where they are from. Because of this, the … location of HEIs can have an important impact not only upon their host economies but also on the localities where students … originate from. This paper analysis the flow of students within Scotland and the resulting spatial shift of consumption …
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extent and in what ways does education correlate with the competitiveness of students in the labour market. How much is the … knowledge acquired during the higher education process useful for students in defining their competitiveness on the Labour … Market. Furthermore, students' views on their own competitiveness and market relevance are investigated. The applied research …
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Given the quality of the available data on Internet access across several countries, it is necessary to evaluate … alternative measures to assess the effect of Internet access on economic outcomes. The research at hand builds up on an earlier … paper, which introduced a novel measure of Internet quality. A logical consequence has been to introduce the new indicator …
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In this paper, we examine welfare implications of switching from a neutrality regime to a network management regime. While in the former a network provider or an integrated ISP should transmit data with a-bit-is-a-bit principle, in the latter it is allowed to differentiate its connection quality...
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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive … internet giants are multisided markets (MSM); their economic rents are "hidden" from the public. On the user-side of the market … rents are not so obvious. This paper addresses the monopolistic/monopsony aspect of the internet giants. In the singlesided …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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Nowadays the digitalization of all aspects of our lives is becoming more and more general. This pattern is also true in case of modern institutions of higher education. In case of the operation of universities, we can identify a shift towards a growingly increasing approach, which is proactive...
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Nowadays several successful examples prove that universities have a quite intense role in the improvement of competitiveness of certain territories and in many cases they have an active role in endeavors regarding economic development. Modern economic development demands that due to the...
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This paper sets up a unified growth model and explores the impact of gender differences in the desire for sex and the distribution of power in the household for the onset of the demographic transition and the take-off to growth. Depending on the price and efficacy of modern contraceptives, the...
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