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Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook
Egebark, Johan; Ekström, Mathias - 2011
Users of the social networking service Facebook have the possibility to post status updates for their friends to read. In turn, friends may react to these short messages by writing comments or by pressing a Like button to show their appreciation. Making use of five Swedish accounts, we set up a...
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Digitization-based automation and occupational dynamics
Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2019
We examine the relationship between occupational automation probabilities and employment dynamics over nearly two decades. We show that employment and wage shares of occupations with a higher automation risk have declined in Sweden over the period 1996-2013. This has occurred both in the...
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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - 2008
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these...
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Does country level social trust predict the size of the sharing economy?
Bergh, Andreas; Funcke, Alexander - 2016
The sharing economy (peer-to-peer based sharing or renting activities coordinated through community-based online services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a...
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From Gutenberg to Google: The internet is adopted earlier if ancestors had advanced information technology in 1500 AD
Ljunge, Martin - 2019
Individuals with ancestry from countries with advanced information technology in 1500 AD, such as movable type and paper, adopt the internet faster than those with less advanced ancestry. The analysis illustrates persistence over five centuries in information technology adoption in European and...
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012
over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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Two sides to the evasion: The pirate bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lundblad, Joakim - 2016
innovative and evasive features. The platform was a radical, widely applied innovation that transformed the Internet landscape …
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An extended n-player network game and simulation of four investment strategies on a complex innovation network
Zhou, Wen; Koptyug, Nikita; Ye, Shutao; Jia, Yifan; Lu, … - 2015
complex networks have been important research topics. In the inter-firm innovation network, it is a typical game behavior for …-firm innovation network. We build an extended inter-firm n-player game based on nonidealized conditions, describe four investment … strategies and simulate the strategies on an inter-firm innovation network in order to compare their performance. By analyzing …
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Stock option taxation and venture capital activity: A cross-country comparison
Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2016
One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...
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