colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …

valuation of firms in the transition as technology changes, and whether or not share prices are always increasing when … technology improves. We find that there can be a U-shaped transition dynamic, so that an initial boom in share price is followed … by a temporary fall in share price even though the underlying technology is improving. …

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in … contrast to numerous studies in the broader technology adoption literature, we find little evidence to suggest a relationship …

results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and … estimated negative impact of wrongful dismissal laws in the US on productivity and the positive effect on the number of …