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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation : Illustrations from Server Software Usage
Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...
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Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within U.S. Industries : Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data
Fetzer, James J. - 2018
This paper presents experimental tables created by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis comparing industry-specific shares of the components of total output of globally engaged firms located in the United States that are part of a multinational enterprise with those of firms that are part of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480900
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New Perspectives on the Decline of US Manufacturing Employment
Fort, Teresa C. - 2018
We use relatively unexplored dimensions of US microdata to examine how US manufacturing employment has evolved across industries, firms, establishments, and regions. We show that these data provide support for both trade- and technology-based explanations of the overall decline of employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453225
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Artificial Intelligence, the Evolution of the Healthcare Value Chain, and the Future of the Physician
Dranove, David; Garthwaite, Craig - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming production across all sectors of the economy, with the potential to both complement and substitute for traditional labor inputs. Healthcare is no exception. Dozens of recent academic studies demonstrate that AI can contribute to the healthcare value...
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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Academic Engagement, Commercialization, and Scholarship : Empirical Evidence from Agricultural and Life Scientists at U.S. Land-grant Universities
Barham, Bradford L. - 2020
This article examines the involvement of agricultural and life science faculty at U.S. land grant universities in two types of university-industry relations: academic engagement (sponsored research, industry collaborations, and presentations), academic commercialization (patenting, licensing,...
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Innovation, Growth and Structural Change in American Agriculture
Alston, Julian M. - 2020
U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical …, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481789
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Economics of research and innovation in agriculture
Moser, Petra (ed.) - NBER Conference on the Economics of Research and … - 2021
--Venture capital and the transformation of private R&D for agriculture /Gregory D. Graff, Felipe de Fueiredo Silva, David …"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of … agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484895
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Nutritional Status and Agricultural Surpluses in the Antebellum United States
Craig, Lee A. - 1997
We model the relationship between local agricultural surpluses, nutritional status, and height, and we test the hypothesis that adult height is positively correlated with the local production of nutrition in infancy. We test the hypothesis on two samples of Union Army recruits - one consisting...
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Internal Net Worth and the Investment Process : An Application to U.S. Agriculture
Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1990
Recent models of firm investment decisions stressing informational imperfections in capital markets provide a foundation for interpreting evidence that movements in internal finance can predict investment opportunities. While such evidence is suggestive, it is often open to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475696