Mobile, fixed line and Internet service effects on global productive efficiency

Thompson, Herbert G.; Garbacz, Christopher

doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2007.03.002

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“…Investment in telecommunications networks and services are also found to increase productivity in both developed and developing countries (Seo, Lee, & Oh, 2009;Thompson & Garbacz, 2007). At the firm-level, ICT access and usage have been found to have a positive relation on productivity in countries around the globe, including in Africa (Esselaar et al, 2007;Kumar et al, 2016;Paunov & Rollo, 2015).…”

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The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

Friederici

Ojanperä

Graham

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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Corporations, development organisations and governments have launched ambitious programmes to 'connect the unconnected', reasoning that this creates economic growth and inclusive development. This paper contrasts these actors' discourses with evidence from academic research. The evidence suggests a highly uneven economic impact of Internet connectivity across geographies and social strata. The analysed sources of discourse (African ICT policies and reports by international organisations) instead propose Grand Visions of connectivity, attributing a self-evident positive, widespread, and transformational impact to the Internet. We discuss technological determinism, acontextual modernism, and optimistic simplism as underlying this contrast, calling for more reflexivity towards the opportunities of 'digital development'.

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The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

Friederici

Ojanperä

Graham

2017

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…However, regarding communications markets and broadband markets, in particular, one can first argue that the "Averch-Johnson" effect (too much capital employed) can be expected to be small because service-based as well as infrastructure-based competition has already transformed legacy monopoly-like market structures into more competitive market structures since the beginning of liberalization and sectorspecific regulation. Second, as argued convincingly in the empirical literature (e.g., Czernich et al (2011); Koutroumpis (2009) ;Röller and Waverman (2001); Thompson and Garbacz (2007)), one can expect substantial positive externalities related to broadband infrastructures that are not captured in the markets. incorporates investment data in physical units at the EU27 country-level.…”

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Facility- and service-based competition and investment in fixed broadband networks: Lessons from a decade of access regulations in the European Union member states

Briglauer

Gugler

Haxhimusa

2016

Telecommunications Policy

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This paper employs firm-level panel data of 57 incumbent and entrant firms for 23European countries in the decade from 2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service-and facility-based competition on firm level investment as well as the strategic effects underlying infrastructure investment decisions. At the same time we explicitly model the structural dynamics of broadband investment using dynamic panel estimation techniques. We find that facility-based competition exerts a positive and significant impact on both incumbents and entrants implying that incumbents' and entrants' investment decisions are strategic complements. Moreover, this strategic complementarity is much more pronounced with respect to the entrants. Finally, we show that service-based competition appears to have no significant impact on the investment decision of incumbents and entrants and that there is no supportive evidence for the so-called "ladder of investment" hypothesis. With respect to the later phase of market regulation, service-based competition exerts a negative impact on entrants' investment.

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“…These greater information spillovers, possible thanks to the internet, allow access to knowledge for all and prevent one party from monopolizing opportunities by pushing for economic reforms. As empirically assessed by Baliamoune-Lutz (2003) and Thompson and Garbacz (2007), we would then expect a positive correlation between internet access and our freedom index. Finally, we would expect our two instruments to influence ren.…”

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The Role of Market-Oriented Institutions in the Deployment of Renewable Energies: Evidences from Europe

Jacqmin

2015

SSRN Journal

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This paper investigates the link between economic freedom and the production of energy using renewable sources, with a specific focus on European countries. Using a dynamic panel approach, we find that this relationship is positive and significant. The results of our instrumental variable approach indicate further the causal channel between economic freedom and the deployment of renewable energies. Looking at the subcomponents of the economic freedom index, we find that long term price stability and freedom to trade boost the production of renewable energies. However, the importance given to markets, rather than governments, in the economy has no significant impact.

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Mobile, fixed line and Internet service effects on global productive efficiency

Cited by 122 publications

References 36 publications

The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

Facility- and service-based competition and investment in fixed broadband networks: Lessons from a decade of access regulations in the European Union member states

The Role of Market-Oriented Institutions in the Deployment of Renewable Energies: Evidences from Europe

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