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The Austin technology incubator
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The ecology alchemists
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Chasing the tail of high-tech
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Prices for local area network equipment
In this paper we examine quality-adjusted prices for local area network (LAN) equipment. Hedonic regressions are used to estimate price changes for the two largest classes of LAN equipment, routers and switches. A matched model was used for LAN cards and the prices for hubs were inferred by using an economic relationship to switches. Overall, we find that prices for the four groups of LAN equipment fell at a 17 percent annual rate between 1995 and 2000. These results stand in sharp contrast to the PPI for communications equipment that is nearly flat over the 1990s.
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Job polarization in the region
Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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Austin's high-tech industry: played out or just beginning?
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Observations: top-heavy job loss
The job downturn has fallen heavily on the highest wage industries.
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The high-tech investment boom and economic growth in the 1990s: accounting for quality
The rapid pace of economic growth in the 1990s was associated with an increasingly prominent role for investment, particularly for information processing and communications technologies. Given the evident pace of technological advancement in these sectors, official economic statistics have been constructed to take careful account of improvements in the quality of these high-tech capital goods. In this article, Michael R. Pakko examines the possibility that this selective accounting for quality improvement has distorted the true importance of high-tech investment in recent economic growth ...