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How Do Top Acquirers Compare in Technology Mergers? New Evidence from an S&P Taxonomy
Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leccese, Mario; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
in their number, pace and concentration of technology mergers, with the potential to harm market competition. Using a …. Overall, we find that technology acquisitions do not shield GAFAM from competition, at least not from other GAFAM members or …
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2011
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …
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Media Competition and News Diets
Angelucci, Charles - 2020
News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...
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"Lost" on the Web : Does Web Distribution Stimulate or Depress Television Viewing?
Waldfogel, Joel - 2007
In the past few years, YouTube and other sites for sharing video files over the Internet have vaulted from obscurity to places of centrality in the media landscape. The files available at YouTube include a mix of user-generated video and clips from network television shows. Networks fear that...
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Media Bias
Mullainathan, Sendhil - 2002
's attempt to simply create a memorable story. We examine competition among media outlets in the presence of these biases …. Whereas competition can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, it actually exaggerates the incentive to spin stories …
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Assessing the Economic Gains from Telecom Competition
Clarke, Richard N. - 2004
This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment …
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Tech Clusters
Kerr, William R. - 2020
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the...
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's IT Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2010
This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...
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Decoding Microsoft : Intangible Capital as a Source of Company Growth
Hulten, Charles R. - 2010
A great deal of research has been devoted to the effects of technical change on economic growth. Less attention has been given to the factors driving the growth of the technological innovators themselves. This paper examines the case of one of the central contributors to the IT revolution, the...
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Americans Do I.T. Better : US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nicholas - 2007
The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then we...
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