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We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of … human capital and with manufacturing trade openness vis-a-vis the OECD. We also find evidence that computer adoption is …
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This research investigates product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We show that empirical …
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in R&D are...
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retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of … for a computer in a retail store as a function of characteristics. The coefficients on the city fixed effects in these … type of customer and type of computer. Conditional on buying a computer, the overall elasticity of buying remotely with …
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This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...
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We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...
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A quantum computer exhibits a quantum advantage when it can perform a calculation that a classical computer is unable … to complete. It follows that a company with a quantum computer would be a monopolist in the market for solving such a … calculation if its only competitor was a company with a classical computer. Conversely, economic outcomes are unclear in settings …
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computer use within occupations converged to the same levels across age groups eventually. That is, there was a temporary …
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This paper shows how to build algorithms that use graphics processing units (GPUs) installed in most modern computers to solve dynamic equilibrium models in economics. In particular, we rely on the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) of NVIDIA GPUs. We illustrate the power of the approach...
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