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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna - 2020
We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P. - 2005
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
Economic studies typically underestimate incremental changes in consumer goods and design innovations that enhance allocative efficiency and structural dynamics. This paper assesses over 12,000 innovations by female patentees and participants in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions...
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Digital Capital and Superstar Firms
Tambe, Prasanna - 2020
General purpose technologies like information technology typically require complementary firm-specific investments to create value. These complementary investments produce a form of capital, which is typically intangible and which we call digital capital. We create an extended firm-level panel...
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Social Media and the Behavior of Politicians : Evidence from Facebook in Brazil
Bessone, Pedro; Campante, Filipe R.; Ferraz, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
politicians towards voters, in the context of the expansion of Facebook in Brazil. We use self-collected data on the universe of …
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The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2017
Do information differences across U.S. physicians contribute to treatment disparities? This paper uses a unique new dataset to evaluate how changes in physician access to a decision-relevant drug database affect prescribing decisions. Our results indicate that doctors using the reference have a...
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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation - new products and processes based on … Schumpeter's vision, digital innovation gives rise to "winner-take-all" market structures, characterized by higher market power … digital non-rivalry, which allows for massive economies of scale and reduces costs of innovation. The latter stimulates higher …
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M. - 1989
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …
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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life
Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki - 2005
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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