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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth

Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …

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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

(ICT). But why have the same technologies not similarly increased Europe's labour productivity? This paper provides a … improvement in the ICT can yield significant increases in labour productivity if - and only if - the organization is drastically …

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European Economic Growth, 1950-2005: An Overview

Crafts, Nicholas; Toniolo, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper surveys the extensive literature on European economic growth since 1950. It presents an overview of comparative growth performance together with benchmarked growth accounting estimates. The growth experience is considered in terms of three periods, the Golden Age of 1950-73, the...

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Together but Apart: ICT and Productivity Growth in Israel

Lach, Saul; Shiff, Gil; Trajtenberg, Manuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … the success of the ICT sector. The main goal of this paper is to shed light on these twin developments. We use newly … constructed data on industry-level ICT investments between 1990 and 2003 and estimate production functions for manufacturing …

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Growth and Human Capital: A Network Approach

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Giannitsarou, Chryssi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a …

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Treasure Hunt: Social Learning in the Field

Mobius, Markus; Phan, Tuan; Szeidl, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We seed noisy information to members of a real-world social network to study how information diffusion and information aggregation jointly shape social learning. Our environment features substantial social learning. We show that learning occurs via diffusion which is highly imperfect: signals...

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Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network

Banerjee, Abhijit; Chandrasekhar, Arun G; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Can we identify the members of a community who are best- placed to diffuse information simply by asking a random sample of in- dividuals? We show that boundedly-rational individuals can, simply by tracking sources of gossip, identify those who are most central in a network according to...

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Do large departments make academics more productive? Agglomeration and peer effects in research

Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...

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Cooperative Investment, Uncertainty and Access

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We investigate cooperative investment for the deployment of a new infrastructure, and how it interacts with access obligations and demand uncertainty. Co-investment increases total coverage only if service differentiation and/or cost savings from joint investment, in particular due to high...

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Trading and information diffusion in OTC markets

Babus, Ana; Kondor, Péter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We model trading and information diffusion in OTC markets, when dealers can engage in many bilateral transactions at the same time. We show that information diffusion is effective, but not efficient. While each bilateral price partially reveals all dealers' private information after a single...

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