This study investigates the variation in attitudes across stakeholders towards investments digital economy. Using semi-structured interviews to identify about spatially evolving socioeconomic importance of economy New Zealand, we identified seven distinct yet partially overlapping concerns that prioritise preferences for investment. A key finding is there are important asymmetries stakeholders'...

The resource-based view of the enterprises generally attributes superior financial performance to organizational resources and capabilities. Firm-specific IT resources are classified as IT infrastructure, human-IT resources, and ITenabled intangibles. This paper empirically examines the association between IT investment and firm performance. Results indicate that firms with high levels of IT in...

resources for road infrastructure financing but also many other countries have been affected in relation to the impact of global financial crisis. In this context, we are talking about the so-called short-investment problem as a result of long-term lack of investment resources. Based on an analysis of road infrastructure funding system in the Czech Republic this article proposes a long-term pla...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets has grown rapidly throughout the 1990s. Driven both by investment in newly privatized state-owned enterprises and new, Greenfield projects, infrastructure investment has grown even faster than overall FDI. Using a database of telecommunications projects in emerging markets, we compare key characteristics of private infrastructure projects in L...

We investigate the implications of an integrated vis-à-vis a national perspective regarding investment in natural gas infrastructure. In particular, we analyze cross-border spillovers related to the investment expenditure of five Western European countries. We develop a practical approach to estimate such cross-border investment expenditure spillovers using a multi-regional input-output model. ...

The abundant natural resources can bring either positive or negative impact to the country’s economy depending on the macroeconomic policies. Mongolia has massive mineral resource dominated by coal, copper, and gold. The Government of Mongolia has started to implement a number of infrastructure projects to decrease the mining project’s cost burden caused from the country’s weak infrastructure. ...

JEL Bibliographic Code O15, O18, O47, O53 We postulate that inferior factor productivity in China’s noncoastal provinces is a principal reason for their lower economic growth despite high investment rates relative to coastal provinces. Using the residual from a fixed-effect Solow growth model for the years 1978-93, we find that TFP is roughly twice as high in the coastal provinces. We estimate ...

We compare methods to allocate resources or operator licenses in industries where the future value of the resource is unknown at the time of allocation as it depends on ex-post joint actions of operators. For example, the value of radio spectrum licenses may depend on ex-post investments into infrastructure development by the operators. Some countries consider infrastructure development among t...

Investment in national infrastructure is critical for growth in early-phase translational research and experimental medicine.

The recognition that resilience is a critical aspect of infrastructure resilience has caused the national and homeland security communities to ask “How does one ensure infrastructure resilience?” Previous analysis methods have primarily focused on system recovery activities following the occurrence of a disruptive event. In this report, we expand on those methods by including pre-disruption inv...