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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points. Results are robust to country and year fixed effects and controlling for linear second-stage effects of our instruments. We verify that our instruments predict broadband penetration but not diffusion of contemporaneous technologies like mobile telephony and computers.broadband, high-speed internet, technology diffusion, economic growth
Stylos kai edraiōma tēs ekklēsias, sive, Dissertatio de iustificatione hominis
quam ... sub praesidio ... Ioh. Henrici Heideggeri ... placido eruditorum examini subiicit Andreas Steinerus, Vitod. author & respondens, ad diem Octobris loco horisque solitisDiss. Hohe Schule Zürich, 167
Author: Andreas Johannis Prytz
An edition of the consecration sermons in Gothenburg Cathedral 1633 by Superintendent Andreas Johannis Prytz, with introductory comments. The first sermon deals with the need for Church buildings, the second with the consecration of a new Church
We must combine conservation of nature with benefits to society. Interview by Gaby Allheilig with Andreas Heinimann on IPBES' Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
On 6 May 2019, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) presented its report on the state of biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide. The first such assessment since 2005, it concludes that biodiversity and ecosystem loss has reached the point where it threatens human well-being. The researchers involved recommend several urgent measures to political decision-makers. Andreas Heinimann of CDE was the one Swiss scientist who worked as a lead author on a chapter of the report
To athanaton tēs psychēs, sive, Dissertatio de animae immortalitate, ex naturae & sanae rationis lumine demonstrata
quam ... sub praesidio ... Iohannis Lavateri ... publicae ac placidae disquisitioni submittit Andreas Steinerus, Vitod. author & respondens ...Dedikation an Johannes Lavater, Jacob Meyer, Joh. Jacob Schaedler und Jacob Hegner auf dem Titelbl. versoDiss. Hohe Schule Zürich, 167
"The Way in which an Experiment is Conducted is Unbelievably Important": On the Experimentation Practices of Economists and Psychologists
To discuss experimental results without discussing how they came about makes sense when the results are robust to the way experiments are conducted. Experimental results, however, are – arguably more often than not – sensitive to numerous design and implementation characteristics such as the use of financial incentives, deception, and the way information is presented. To the extent that economists and psychologists have different experimental practices, this claim is of obvious practical and interpretative relevance. In light of the empirical results summarized below, it seems warranted to say that it does not make sense to report experimental results without reporting the design and implementation choices that were made.Duhem-Quine problem, experimental design, experimental implementation, financial incentives, deception
Family Virtues and Social Critique: Andreas Latzko’s Anti-War Prose (1917-1918)
Between 1917 and 1918, the Austro-Hungarian author Andreas Latzko (1876-1943) wrote three separate publications against the Great War: Menschen im Krieg (1917), Friedensgericht (1918), and Der letzte Mann (published 1919). Literary historians tend to bypass these works, and the few who note them chiefly focus on the best-selling novella cycle Menschen im Krieg (1917). It is usually presented as an example of expressionist political prose, or as a mixture of social satire and aesthetic shock-tactics that chiefly remains indebted to realist traditions, albeit with occasional incursions into expressionistic styles..
Squamomelanocytic Tumor of the Nail Unit Metastasizing to a Sentinel Lymph Node: A Dermoscopic and Histologic Investigation
False positive rapid antigen tests for SARS-CoV-2 in the real-world and their economic burden
47 patients in 14 families with the rare genodermatosis keratosis punctata palmoplantaris Buschke-Fischer-Brauer
We summarize the clinical data of 47 patients with the rare genodermatosis keratosis punctata palmoplantaris Buschke-Fischer-Brauer. The pedigrees of 14 German families were studied. In three families there was only one member affected, two or more affected members were found in the other families. These family pedigrees were consistent with autosomal dominant inheritance. Variable expression of, the disease was noted in members within one family. Over pressure points punctate keratoses coalesced into hyperkeratotic plaques. There was palmoplantar hyperhidrosis in 3 families associated with keratosis. Continuous systemic retinoid treatment can clear symptoms. Future genetic classification on a molecular basis may reveal the existance of more than one entity of this clinically heterogeneous genodermatosis
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