The impact of broadband on jobs and the German economy

Intereconomics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 26-34

  Katz, Raul L ^a   Vaterlaus, Stephan ^b   Zenhäusern, Patrick ^b   Suter, Stephan ^b  

^a Columbia Institute for Tele Information ^*  (United States)

^b POLYNOMICS AG   (Switzerland)

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EID: 76749162423     PISSN: 00205346     EISSN: 1613964X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10272-010-0322-y     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. To access references of academic research, please consult the full study report available at http://www.citi.columbia.edu.
2. See R. L. Katz: La Contribución de las tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones al desarrollo económico: propuestas de América Latina a los retos económicos actuales, Madrid, 2009, Ariel.
3. BMWi: The Federal Government's Broadband strategy, as at Feburary 2009, http://www.bmwi.de/Englisch/Redaktion/Pdf/broadband-strategy,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi,sprache=en,rwb=true.pdf.
4. BMWi: Konjunkturgerechte Wachstumspolitik Jahreswirtschaftsbericht 2009, http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Redaktion/PDF/Publikationen/jahreswirtschaftsbericht-2009,property=pdf,bereich=bmwi,sprache=de,rwb=true.pdf.
5. BMWi: Der Breitbandatlas des BMWi, http://www.zukunft-breitband.de/BBA/Navigation/breitbandatlas.html.
6. See, in particular, D. Elixmann, D. Ilic, K-H. Neumann, T. Pluckebaum: The Economics of Next Generation Access: Final Report. Study for the European Competitive Telecommunication Association (ECTA), WIK Consult, Bad Honnef 2008.
7. These splits are based on cost allocations based on "real life" deployment data for NGAN (furnished by a European operator) and for 3G and Wimax for a US operator.
8. Federal Statistical Office Germany 2006.
9. Source: Bundesnetzagentur Jahresbericht 2008, 2009.
10. The difference between the fi rst 25% achieved in 2014 (12,236 million euros) and the second 25% achieved in 2020 (15,690 million euros) is due to two factors: 1) the fi rst tranche benefi ts from the 240,000 households already served by municipal network roll-outs and, more importantly, 2) the cost per line in the second phase rises from 1,150- 1,425 euros to 1,500-1,700 euros.
11. Type I multipliers measure the direct and indirect effects (direct plus indirect divided by the direct effect), while Type II multipliers measure Type I plus induced effects (direct plus indirect plus induced divided by the direct effect).
12. For full model estimates, please consult the study report available at http://www.citi.columbia.edu.
13. This is consistent with the results for the USA of W. Lehr, C. Osorio, S. Gillett, M. Sirbu: Measuring broadband economic impact, paper presented at the 33rd Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy, 23-25 September 2006, Arlington, Va.
14. M. Fornefeld, G. Delaunay, D. Elixmann: The impact of broadband on growth and productivity.: A study on behalf of the European Commission.
15. D. Shideler, L. Taylor, N. Badasyan: The Economic Impact of Broadband Deployment in Kentucky, presentation at the Telecommunication Policy Research Conference, Washington DC, 28-30 September 2007.
16. See D. Jorgenson, M. Ho, J. Samuels, K. Stiroh: Productivity growth in the new millennium and its industry origins, Presentation to the Sloan Industry Studies Conference, Boston 2007.
17. While it is not possible to determine, as in the case of network construction, what type of sectors would be most impacted by network externalities, experience indicates that highly developed areas will generate knowledge-intensive occupations such as R&D and product development, while less developed regions will attract low-end information intensive jobs, such as virtual call centres.