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Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In earlier work (Bénabou, Ticchi and Vindigni 2013) we uncovered a robust negative association between religiosity and patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the individual level, examining the relationship between...

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Innovation in creative cities: Evidence from British small firms

Lee, Neil; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Creative cities are seen as important sites for the generation of new ideas, products and processes. Yet, beyond case studies of a few high-profile cities, there is little empirical evidence on the link between local creative industries concentration and innovation. This paper addresses this gap...

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Economic growth and the design of search engines

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The Internet plays a growing role in the economy. This paper extrapolates this trend and analyses a world where most …

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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies

den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

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 Cluster Emergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Internet development holds the promise of transmitting economic value across physical space at zero marginal cost. In …

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The Economics of Books

Canoy, Marcel; van der Ploeg, Frederick; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants...

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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …

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Chicken and Egg: Competing Matchmakers

Caillaud, Bernard; Jullien, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

intermediation on the Internet by allowing registration and transaction prices, and multiple registration. When only registration …

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Digital Goods and the New Economy

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Digital goods are bit strings, sequences of 0s and 1s, that have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are non-rival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...

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Matching Demand and Supply in a Weightless Economy: Market-Driven Creativity With and Without IPRs

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

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