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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
of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372425
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210090
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458770
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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking
Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468288
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Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?
Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper robustly concludes that it cannot. A model is constructed under idealised conditions that presume the risks associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI) are real, that safe AGI products are possible, and that there exist socially-minded funders who are interested in funding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437055
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Issues in the Coordination of Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Blinder, Alan S. - 1982
This paper examines issues in the current debate over coordination between fiscal and monetary policies. Section I1 … uses the traditional targets-instruments approach to assess the potential gains from greater coordination. Since greater … coordination is often equated with looser money and tighter fiscal policy, two econometric models of the economy are used to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478123
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Coordination, Switching Costs and the Division of Labor in General Medicine : An Economic Explanation for the Emergence of Hospitalists in the United States
Meltzer, David O. - 2010
General medical care in the United States has historically been provided by physicians who care for their patients in both ambulatory and hospital settings. Care is now increasingly divided between physicians specializing in hospital care (hospitalists) and ambulatory-based care primary care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462612
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Earnings Inequality and Coordination Costs : Evidence From U.S. Law Firms
Garicano, Luis - 2009
coordination costs fell during this period. We then propose a "hierarchical production function" in which output is the product of … coordination costs fell broadly and steadily during this period, so that hiring one's first associate leveraged a partner's skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463906
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Stabilizing Expectations under Monetary and Fiscal Policy Coordination
Eusepi, Stefano - 2008
need for policy coordination: the specific choice of monetary policy limits the set of fiscal policies consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464256
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Time Zones as Cues for Coordination : Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006
expect more coordination outside of their local areas are more responsive to the effects of time zones …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466315