Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521820545 ISBN 13: 9780521820547

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

"European industry has already developed successful standards in the past, and I am very con?dent that on the basis of DVB-H, Mobile TV services can developtheeconomiesofscaletheyneedfortake-upacrossEuropeandaround the world," With these words of EU's Telecom Commissioner Viviane Reding, DVB-H is destined to be a dominating mobile TV technology in Europe and even in the world. I was ?rst getting in touch with the DVB technology when I was doing my PhD research in Brunel University in UK in 2002. At that time DVB-T was already a mature and widely used digital broadcast technology and anyone could easily buy a DVB-T receiver in the market to try the digital broadcast signals that have been already broadcasted in UK since 1998. Then the DVB technology world changed dramatically. As a more ?exible and robust terr- trial broadcast system targeting handsets, DVB-H was developed based on DVB-T. In 2003 the DVB-H community were continuously working to ?n- ize the standard. Finally in November 2004 DVB-H was adopted as an ETSI standard EN 302 304. I was lucky to see all these changes when I was doing my PhD research in DVB technology. And I was very proud to be involved in the di?erent DVB-H research projects since the beginning of the DVB-H standard development stage. I was also lucky enough that I am one of the ?rst persons who ?nished PhD degree by focusing on DVB-H research.

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Review:

Review of the hardback: 'This is a book which economic and business historians can read with both pleasure and profit.' Enterprise and Society

Book Description:

This volume includes ten essays dealing with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century. Each relates to the development of institutions to economic change and describes their evolution over time, as well as discussing several different forms of intermediation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0521820545
• ISBN 13: 9780521820547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 362
• Editor: Engerman Stanley L., Hoffman Philip T., Rosenthal Jean-Laurent, Sokoloff Kenneth L.