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Determinants of Mobile Telecommunication Adoption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2012
This study attempts to analyze Kurdistan Region's potentials in the effective usage of mobile telecommunication. The purpose is to identify the key factors determining the adoption of mobile telephony service. A conceptual model is specified and a number of hypotheses tested with a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592028
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Contribution of ICT to the Chinese Economic Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Yang, Wanshan - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
The view about systematic irrationality of investors and managers in investment with reference to information and communication technology (ICT) with no effects on productivity growth is called productivity paradox. Research suggests that ICT return in developed nations is significant and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419158
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The Faster Accelerating Knowledge-Based Society
Kim, Tai-Yoo; Heshmati, Almas; Park, Jihyoun - Technology Management, Economics and Policy Program … - 2009
Economies in knowledge-based societies grow faster than in previous agricultural and industrial societies. This growth is based on the information and communications technology (ICT) development. The production function of ICT industries shows increasing returns to scale. The network effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511411
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A Survey of the Role of Fiscal Policy in Addressing Income Inequality, Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
Heshmati, Almas; Kim, Jungsuk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient growth. Developed countries have experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884285
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233841
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Ratioinstitutet - 2006
We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642393
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Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000
This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing …, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey …-specific modelling are discussed. Second, we survey the econometric approach to efficiency analysis. The issues of modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649271
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research: With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703160
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132252
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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims, we apply robust regression analysis to estimate the models to test 5 research hypotheses using 263 firm level data located at Gwangju region in Korea. Our empirical results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143944