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Physicians and the Production of Health : Returns to Health Care During the Mortality Transition

Liebert, Helge; Mäder, Beatrice - 2022

This paper investigates the returns to health care provision during the mortality transition. We construct a new panel … data set covering German municipalities from 1928 to 1936. The endogeneity of health care supply is addressed by using the … expulsion of Jewish physicians from statutory health insurance as exogenous variation in regional physician supply. Increases in …

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Two-Sided Platforms and Biases in Technology Adoption

Choi, Jay Pil - 2020

We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...

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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT

Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021

We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...

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Output Insecurity and Ownership Disputes as Barriers to Technology Diffusion

Camacho, Oscar; Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, … - 2022

This paper examines both the desirability and feasibility of technology transfers in a setting where institutions governing the security of output or income are imperfect. Based on a guns-versus-butter model involving two countries (a technology leader and a technology laggard), our analysis...

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The Gift of a Lifetime : The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality

Hollingsworth, Alex; Karbownik, Krzysztof; Thomasson, … - 2022

The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation … medicine in contemporary society, little is known about how hospitals and modern medicine contributed to this health transition …

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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide

Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021

We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...

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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019

In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and propose a unifying theory to analyze the symptoms and the potential causes of this decline. We first highlight 10 pronounced stylized facts related to declining business dynamism...

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Organizational Barriers to Transforming Large Finance Corporations : Cloud Adoption and the Importance of Technological Architecture

Cao, Sam (Ruiqing); Iansiti, Marco - 2023

This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption – which reflects in the lack of data...

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Incorporating Inequality Aversion in Health-Care Priority Setting

Costa-Font, Joan - 2019

Although measures of sensitivity to inequality are important in judging the welfare effects of health-care programmes …, it is far from straightforward how to elicit them and apply them in health-care decision making. This paper provides an … overview of the literature on the measurement of inequality aversion, examines some of the features specific of the health …

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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects …

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