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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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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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Antitrust, Regulation, and User Union in the Era of Digital Platforms and Big Data
Cong, Lin William; Mayer, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities and platforms' investments in data infrastructure....
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Productivity and Wages : What Was the Productivity-Wage Link in the Digital Revolution of the Past, and What Might Occur in the AI Revolution of the Future?
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn; Hayes, Grant E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Wages have been spreading out across workers over time - or in other words, the 90th/50th wage ratio has risen over time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S.,...
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Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
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The Organization of Innovation : Property Rights and the Outsourcing Decision
Jungbauer, Thomas; Nicholson, Sean; Pan, June; Waldman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Why do firms outsource research and development (R&D) for some products while conducting R&D in-house for similar ones? An innovating firm risks cannibalizing its existing products. The more profitable these products, the more the firm wants to limit cannibalization. We apply this logic to the...
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Does Offshoring Production Reduce Innovation : Firm-Level Evidence from Taiwan
Branstetter, Lee; Chen, Jong-rong; Glennon, Britta; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
products to China. We find causal evidence that offshoring impacts both the level and nature of innovation. In the technologies … directly related to product categories that could be offshored more easily after the policy shock, overall innovation levels … decline and innovative effort shifts away from product innovation and towards process innovation. However, we also find …
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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking
Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...
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Biased Sampling of Early Users and the Direction of Startup Innovation
Cao, Ruiqing; Koning, Rembrand M.; Nanda, Ramana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that the composition of the platform's 'beta testers' on the day a new product is launched has a systematic and persistent impact on the venture's success. Specifically, we use word embedding methods to...
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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Digital technologies and fintech firms have rapidly reshaped the consumer financial landscape in recent years, and have the potential to help consumers make better decisions and improve their financial health. Existing technologies such as autopay are also experiencing increased takeup, a trend...
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