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Internet of Things and the network economics of operator platforms

Knieps, Günter - 2019

Disruption of tradition network industries and the emergence of innovative physical operator platforms provide challenging governance problems of contractual relationships among different actors involved. The problem solution competence of operator platforms (two-sided, multi-sided) is the...

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Internet der Dinge und die Zukunft der Netzökonomie

Knieps, Günter - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 99 (2019) 5, pp. 348-354

Das Internet der Dinge wäre undenkbar ohne den rapiden technologischen Fortschritt in der Telekommunikation während der vergangenen Jahrzehnte von spezialisierten schmalbandigen Netzen hin zu All-IP-Breitbandnetzen. Dadurch wird ein hochvolumiger Transport von Datenpaketen für ein großes...

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Internet of Things in Service Innovation

Xu, Xiangxuan - In: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 14 (2012) Special No. 6, pp. 698-719

The last decade has witnessed rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) literatures by scientists from technology domains such as computer science, telecommunication and engineering, but very few studies have been done by sociologists, and even fewer by economic geographers in service research....

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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies: a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study

Jakobi, Akos - 2012

information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last … couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities seemed to appear that could have been connected to the usage of … country of information technologies, and Hungary, a member state of the EU with different backgrounds and opportunities of ICT …

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The Role of ICT in Reducing Information Asymmetry for Financial Access

Asongu, Simplice; Moulin, Bertrand - 2016

This study assesses the role of ICT in complementing private credit bureaus (PCB) and public credit registries (PCR) in … marginal effects from interactions between ICT and PCR (PCB) are consistently positive (negative); (ii) net effects from … financial deposits. Overall, the complementarity between information offices and ICT in boosting financial access is still very …

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Reducing Information Asymmetry with ICT: A critical review of loan price and quantity effects in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Roux, Sara Le - 2016

This study investigates loan price and quantity effects of information sharing offices with ICT, in a panel of 162 … Moments and Instrumental Quantile Regressions. Our findings broadly show that ICT with public credit registries decrease the … price of loans and increase the quantity of loans. While the net effects from the interaction of ICT with private credit …

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Is information diffusion a threat to market power for financial access? Insights from the African banking industry

Asongu, Simplice; Batuo, Enowbi; Nwachukwu, Jacinta; … - 2016

This study assesses how information diffusion dampens the adverse effect of market power on the price and quantity of loans provided by a panel of 162 banks from 39 African countries for the period 2001-2011. The empirical evidence is based on three endogenity-robust estimation techniques,...

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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joël - 2018

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

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Access to Electricity and ICT Usage: A Country-level Assessment on Sub-Saharan Africa

Houngbonon, Georges V.; Le Quentrec, Erwan - 2019

While several determinants of ICT usage has been investigated in the literature, the impact of access to electricity …, Internet and smartphones, as well as average revenue per user (ARPU) to evaluate the impact of access to electricity on ICT … margins, we find that ICT usage increases by 0.43 US dollar per connected user, meaning that mobile ARPU would have declined …

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Inequality, ICT and financial access in Africa

Tchamyou, Vanessa S.; Erreygers, Guido; Cassimon, Danny - 2018

This study investigates the role of information and communication technology (ICT) on income inequality through … to reduce inequality contingent on ICT, only the effect of financial depth in reducing inequality is robust to the … on this extension show that ICT reduces income inequality through formal financial sector development and financial …

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