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

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-214

  Thompson Jr , Herbert G ^a   Garbacz, Christopher ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mississippi Public Utilities Staff   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic freedom; Stochastic frontier analysis; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INTERNET; MOBILE PHONES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS;

ECONOMICS;

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC REFORM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; INTERNET; STOCHASTICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE NETWORK;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 34249112617     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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