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Kerr, William R. - 2014

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Market Potential, Increasing Returns, and Geographic Concentration

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

In this paper, I examine the relationship between increasing returns to scale and the geographic concentration of economic activity. Using data on U.S. counties, I estimate the structural parameters of the Krugman (1991) model of economic geography. The specification I use, which is derived from...

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The U.S. Left Behind : The Rise of IPO Activity Around the World

Doidge, Craig - 2011

During the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in IPO activity around the world. Though vibrant IPO … the U.S. has fallen compared to the rest of the world and U.S. firms go public less than expected based on the economic …

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In a World Without Borders : the Impact of Taxes on Internet Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan - 2000

The rapid rise in sales over the Internet has generated debate over the taxation of such transactions since the buyers … the effects that local sales taxes have on Internet commerce. The results show that, controlling for many observable … characteristics, people who live in locations with high sales taxes are significantly more likely to buy things over the Internet. The …

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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce

Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018

We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...

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Online Syndicates and Startup Investment

Catalini, Christian - 2019

Early crowdfunding platforms were based on a premise of disintermediation from professional investors, and relied on the ‘wisdom of the crowd' to screen high quality projects. This becomes problematic when equity is involved, as the degree of asymmetric information between entrepreneurs...

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Measuring the Location of Production in a World of Intangible Productive Assets, FDI, and Intrafirm Trade

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2010

As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or...

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Would You Buy a Honda Made in the U.S.? The Impact of Production Location on Manufacturing Quality

Lacetera, Nicola - 2014

Are location-specific factors--such as the education and attitude of the local workforce, supplier networks, institutional infrastructure, and local "culture"--important for understanding persistent heterogeneities among firms? We address this question in the context of the automobile industry....

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Buy Local? the Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion

Chen, Henry C. - 2014

We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three cities - San Francisco, Boston, and New York. We find that firms open new satellite offices based on the success rate of venture capital-backed investments in an area. Geography is...

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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Horton, John J. - 2017

Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...

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