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the relation between spatial competition, craft guilds and innovation, and (ii) by showing the calibrated model correctly …
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in a better position to hire employees that can help with innovation. In contrast, competition in the market for …
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Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
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We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or a closely related industry as their fathers' industry of employment. Second, this tendency is correlated with intelligence: higher-IQ entrepreneurs are less likely to follow...
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Entrepreneurship requires energy and creativity as well as business acumen. Some factors that contribute to entrepreneurship may decline with age, but business skills increase with experience in high level positions. Having too many older workers in society slows entrepreneurship. Older workers...
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When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively … entry before switching to a cooperative commercialization strategy. Empirical evidence from the automated speech recognition …
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person. This paper studies the role of short-term cross-border labor movements for innovation by estimating the recent impact … one fourth as potent for innovation as domestic R&D spending. We show that the technological knowledge of each business … traveler matters by estimating a higher impact for travelers that originate in U.S. states with substantial innovation, such as …
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We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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