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Allcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Song, Lena - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...

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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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Access and Exposure to Local News Media in the Digital Era : Evidence from U.S. Media Markets

Bang, Minji; L'Heudé, Lucie; Postlewaite, Andrew; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using a new comprehensive survey of adults in large U.S. media markets we show that minority and low-skill individuals, who are heavily exposed to shocks to the local economy, typically have stronger preferences for and stronger ex- posure to local news than high-skill and white individuals. At...

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Dynamics of Information Exchange in Endogenous Social Networks

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

define asymptotic learning as the fraction of agents taking the correct action converging to one in probability as a society … grows large. Under truthful communication, we show that asymptotic learning occurs if (and under some additional conditions … receive and distribute a large amount of information. Asymptotic learning therefore requires information to be aggregated in …

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Workplace Knowledge Flows

Sandvik, Jason - 2020

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...

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The Gravity of Knowledge

Keller, Wolfgang - 2009

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...

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Minerva Unbound : Knowledge Stocks, Knowledge Flows and New Knowledge Production

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2006

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and patents in the open-access digital library NanoBank, is shown to be positively affected both by the size of existing regional stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields,...

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Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants : The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research

Furman, Jeffrey L. - 2006

While the cumulative nature of knowledge is recognized as central to economic growth, the microeconomic foundations of cumulativeness are less understood. This paper investigates the impact of a research-enhancing institution on cumulativeness, highlighting two effects. First, a selection effect...

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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2001

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...

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Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property : Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Strategy

Zucker, Lynne G. - 2014

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of...

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