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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 …
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favourable for the long-living individuals, represent an equilibrium. …
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endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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This paper explores an equilibrium model for industry entry dynamics and technological change. We focus on the share … 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 …
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incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
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This paper sheds light on an empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination. We … introduce individual demand uncertainty into Hotelling’s model of product differentiation and show that firms offer advance … shows that whether competition has a positive or negative effect on price dispersion depends on the level of demand …
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