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particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in … file for patent protection in focal foreign economies where their regional peers and, to a lesser extent, competitors from … economies with similar export product structures have filed for a larger number of patents. …
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Telecommunications Organization (OTE) market and social performance since 1992. Our findings confirm that regulation in tandem with …
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Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous communication technologies? Our contribution in this...
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This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones. Under quite general conditions of competition, theory suggests that lower termination charges will result in higher prices for mobile subscribers, a phenomenon known as...
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … of health knowledge. For causal identification we use increases in the UK minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …
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We argue that incorporating the decision of how to organize the acquisition, use, and communication of knowledge into … economic models is essential to understand a wide variety of economic phenomena. We survey the literature that has used … knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …
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of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …
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This paper re-examines Hayek’s insights into the problem of knowledge in markets, and argues that his analysis remains … coordinating transactions wherever knowledge is dispersed and innovation renders the future uncertain—remains a potent explanation … and tacit knowledge has important but widely ignored implications for the contemporary use of statistics in financial risk …
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