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The paper uses long-run GDP data for developed countries drawn from Maddison (2003) to generate deviation cycles for the period from 1870 to 2001. The cyclical deviates are examined for their bilateral cross-correlation values in three separate periods, those of the first globalization wave...
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The paper reports strikingly high correlations of the cyclical components of industrial production between the participant countries in the ERM. Supplementing these correlations with criteria based on real exchange rate volatility, trade and monetary policy conformity, cluster analysis is used...
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We propose a comprehensive methodology to characterize the business cycle comovements across European economies and some industrialized countries, always trying to ‘let the data speak’. Out of this framework, we propose a novel method to show that there is no ‘Euro economy’ that acts as...
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standardization, that is, left alone the market may fail to achieve standardization when it is socially desirable and (2) even if the … in the DVD market and examine the role played by the Internet. …
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This paper empirically explores standard-setting organizations’ policy choices. Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2006), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive...
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do not, in the case of indirect network effects, make standardization more likely, but (ii) indirect network effects are … associated with excessive standardization. We show in Clements’ framework that neither of these results are correct …: standardization is more likely as the number of software firms increases and when the type of market equilibrium is unique— there are …
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law matures. Contract standardization avoids this cost, statically improving enforcement; but it crowds out innovative …
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The Internet plays a growing role in the economy. This paper extrapolates this trend and analyses a world where most …
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In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …
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