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Lerner, Josh - 2000

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many … exploration of the economics of open source software. We highlight the extent to which labor economics, especially the literature …

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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics

Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

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The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions : Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley

Atkin, David; Chen, Keith; Popov, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the determinants of agglomeration. However, the existing literature studying patterns of geographic proximity in patent citations or industrial co-location has struggled to disentangle the benefits of...

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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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A New Use of Importance Sampling to Reduce Computational Burden in Simulation Estimation

Ackerberg, Daniel A. - 2001

Method of Simulated Moments (MSM) estimators introduced by McFadden (1989)and Pakes and Pollard (1989) are of great use to applied economists. They are relatively easy to use even for estimating very complicated economic models. One simply needs to generate simulated data according to the model...

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