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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a … large and complex market. Our study generates several interesting results related to the adoption and diffusion of Health … Information Technology (HIT), including: (1) the adoption probabilities vary considerably by the specific type of clinic; (2) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570052
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Timing of Technology Adoption and Product Market Competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - CESifo - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034642
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - CESifo - 2012
on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552441
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - CESifo - 2014
destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888453
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181434
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Fueling Growth when Oil Peaks: Directed Technological Change and the Limits to Efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012
While fossil energy dependency has declined and energy supply has grown in the postwar world economy, future resource scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous growth model that reconciles the current aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586070
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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2014
We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877841
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Fairlie, Robert W.; Grunberg, Samantha H. - CESifo - 2014
colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888455
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The Effects of Home Computers on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Community College Students
Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - CESifo - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723534
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Science vs. Profit in Research. Lessons from the Human Genome Project
Carraro, Carlo; Pomè, Alessandra; Siniscalco, Domenico - CESifo - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766262