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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition

Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …

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Adoption and diffusion of health information technology: The case of primary care clinics

Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - 2012

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

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Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations

Bahar, Dany; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Rapoport, Hillel - 2019

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

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Endogenous Task-Based Technical Change - Factor Scarcity and Factor Prices -

Irmen, Andreas - 2020

technological progress and changes in factor prices. The equilibrium technology is multi-dimensional and not strongly factor …

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Business groups in emerging markets: financial control and sequential investment

Hainz, Christa - 2006

Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. One explanation is that business groups substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. We investigate this by setting up a model where firms within the business group are connected...

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Import Processing and Trade Costs

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021

costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing times at the port of entry are random and firms choose lead times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …

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Entrepôt : Hubs, Scale, and Trade Costs

Ganapati, Sharat - 2020

Entrepôts are hubs that facilitate trade between various origins and destinations. We study the role these hubs, and the networks they form, play in international trade. Using novel data, we trace the paths of containerized goods entering the United States. We show that the majority of trade is...

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Trade Costs, Market Access and Economic Geography : Why the Empirical Specification of Trade Costs Matters

Bosker, Erik Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2021

Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...

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Competition and Innovation in Automobile Markets

Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015

Using data from the U.S. automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the U.S. market’s economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...

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Crowdsourced Innovation: How Community Managers Affect Crowd Activities

Hornuf, Lars; Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2018

In this study, we investigate whether and to what extent community managers in online collaborative communities can stimulate crowd activities through their engagement. Using a novel data set of 22 large online idea crowdsourcing campaigns, we find that active engagement of community managers...

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