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The Impact of AI and Cross-Border Data Regulation on International Trade in Digital Services : A Large Language Model
Sun, Ruiqi; Trefler, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and of cross-border restrictions on data flows has created a host of new questions and related policy dilemmas. This paper addresses two questions: How is digital service trade shaped by (1) AI algorithms and (2) by the interplay between AI algorithms and...
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Data Privacy for Record Linkage and Beyond
Lin, Shurong - 2024
In a data-driven world, two prominent research problems are record linkage and data privacy, among others. Record … the other hand, data privacy research seeks to balance the need to extract accurate insights from data with the imperative … to protect the privacy of the entities involved. Inevitably, data privacy issues arise in the context of record linkage …
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The Anatomy of Cyber Risk
Jamilov, Rustam; Rey, Hélène; Tahoun, Ahmed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We construct novel text-based measures of firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings calls of 12,000+ firms from 85 countries over 20+ years. We categorize each cyber-related discussion into topics that capture sentiment, monetary loss, country names, etc. We document new facts...
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Measuring Firm Activity from Outer Space
Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Seidel, André - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
To understand how global firm networks operate, we need consistent information on their activities, unbiased by their reporting choices. In this paper, we collect a novel dataset on the light that factories emit at night for a large sample of car manufacturing plants. We show that nightlight...
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To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...
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What Determines Productivity?
Syverson, Chad - 2010
Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields, including (but not limited to) macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor, and trade. This paper surveys and...
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Exploring Differences in Employment between Household and Establishment Data
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2009
Using a large data set that links individual Current Population Survey (CPS) records to employer-reported administrative data, we document substantial discrepancies in basic measures of employment status that persist even after controlling for known definitional differences between the two data...
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Median Stable Matching
Schwarz, Michael - 2009
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Fair wages : strengthening corporate social responsibility
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel - 2010
Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author argues in this important new book, the time has now come to...
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Innovation, agglomeration and regional competition
Johansson, Börje (contributor);  … - 2009
This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing our current understanding of the new role of regions and their behaviour, this book addresses questions such as: How and why do regions compete? How does competition between...
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