Linking investments in telecoms &total factor productivity in transition economieS

18th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Samoilenko, Sergey ^a   Osei Bryson, Kweku Muata ^b  

^a VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cobb douglas production function; Economic development; Investments in ICT; Structural equation modeling; Total factor productivity; Transition economies; Translog production function

Indexed keywords

COBB-DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY; TRANS-LOG PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS; TRANSITION ECONOMY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; PRODUCTIVITY; RESEARCH;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84870631204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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