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Publikováno v:
Telecommunications Policy. 35:999-1009
Broadband telecommunication service is growing rapidly and its economic impact is likely to vary considerably around the globe. Considerable interest is being shown in wireless broadband, especially in low income and rural areas. This study focuses o
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Economics Letters. 97:11-16
Our multivariate model finds smoke detector impact on the fire death rate has an elasticity of − 0.10, similar to Garbacz [Garbacz, C., 1989. Smoke Detector Effectiveness And The Value Of Saving A Life, Economics Letters, 31, 281–286.] using pre-
Publikováno v:
Information Economics and Policy. 19:189-214
Since the pioneering work of Hardy [Hardy Andrew P., 1980. The role of the telephone in economic development. Telecommunications Policy (December), 278–286], Saunders et al. [Saunders, R.J., Warford, J.J., Wellenius, B., 1983. Telecommunications an
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Telecommunications Policy. 31:276-289
Living standards and economic growth in developing countries are invariably linked to the availability and use of telecom services. Effective policy decisions require the best estimates of the drivers of these services. In this paper, telecommunicati
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Information Economics and Policy. 17:495-512
Worldwide telecommunications demand is estimated in models for business and residential mainline telephone, and for mobile telephone service using separate models for developed and developing countries for the period 1996–2001. We test for cross-pr
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Journal of Regulatory Economics. 24:373-378
Adding the 2000 decennial census data to our pooled logit model results in much stronger evidence that targeted subsidy programs to add poor households to the network are ineffective and very costly. Untargeted programs are about nine times more expe
Publikováno v:
Telecommunications Policy. 24:969-979
Autor:
Nainish K. Gupta, Herbert G. Thompson
Publikováno v:
The Electricity Journal. 12:38-45
In an active market for generation assets prompted by deregulation, some nuclear plants will command higher market prices, but the unresolved issue of stranded costs will continue to be a drag. Controlled deregulation of nuclear assets may provide an
Publikováno v:
Journal of Macroeconomics. 21:563-576
We estimate an aggregate production frontier using time-series data for the private U.S. economy and show that estimated technical inefficiency is negatively correlated with the stock of public capital, or infrastructure. We then estimate a productio
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Journal of Productivity Analysis. 6:333-342
Considerable controversy surrounds the role of money in the production of goods and services. Previous empirical research has appeared to find that the real money stock affects aggregate output, holding other, more conventional inputs constant. Howev