From February 8-11, 2009, the Dagstuhl Seminar Bandwidth on Demand was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During this seminar, participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the talks given during the seminar are put together in this paper.

3 C anada’s economy turned a corner in the 1990s. What happened? Most Canadians would give a lot of credit to the dramatic about face on the deficit in middecade. We finally began to live within our means; made room for taxes to be cut; and came to rely less on bureaucrats and more on entrepreneurs. Those who follow these issues more closely would also point to the Bank of Canada’s successful w...

This paper examines the reiationship between the legal system and banldng development and traces this connection through to long-ran rates of per capita GDP growth, capital stock growth, and productivity growth. Tlie data indicate that countries where the legal system (1) emphasizes creditor rights and (2) rigorously enforces contracts have better-developed banks than countries where laws do no...

entrepreneurship in the world, especially in western developed countries, the much interest in recent years the concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems and integrating the separation of infrastructure services needed by entrepreneurs and governments innovative citizens, industrialists and entrepreneurs to create. a person apart from the idea of an entrepreneur, long way to run and deliver it to t...

Faiz Bilquees Tahir Mukhtar The study explores the causal relationship among export instability, income terms of trade instability and economic growth in India. By using the cointegration test and the vector error correction model for the period 1960 to 2008, the study demonstrates that there exists a long run equilibrium relationship among export instability, income terms of trade instability,...

This paper examines the relationship between the legal system and banking development and traces this connection through to long-run rates of per capita GDP growth, capital stock growth, and productivity growth. The data indicate that countries where the legal system (1) emphasizes creditor rights and (2) rigorously enforces contracts have better developed banks than countries where laws do not...

This paper aims to test endogenous growth models based on technology spillovers. So far similar models have tested the effects of total physical capital formation and international capital goods flows on long-run economic growth. We exploited VAR models and explored that imported machinery and equipment has no long-run growth effects. However, in the short-run, growth effects appeared in most o...

Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now performed by human labor. This paper describes three models of the aggregate economic changes that occur when capital becomes capable of performing human work skills. The basic model, with a single sector and homogeneous labor, projects output growth rates over the next few decades tha...