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an increase in the level of corporate investment but a decrease in the investment-to-price sensitivity. We provide …
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temporary bubble in 2002-03. (2) Why did productivity growth accelerate after 2000 when the ICT investment boom was collapsing …) What does the collapse of the investment boom imply about the future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s …
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, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …
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Our study aims at assessing the actual importance of the two main channels usually contemplated in the literature through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in ICT. We thus estimate what are the specific impacts of...
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Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified …&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to assess their relative importance and to what extent they are …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find …
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United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its …
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Information technology (IT) can enhance firms' long-run performance but is also a risky investment, with high fixed … fluctuations. Supplementary analyses suggest that hospitals' finances and perceptions of uncertainty drive these capital investment …
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The extensive literature on knowledge management spans several fields, but there are remarkably few studies that address the basic question as to whether knowledge management practices improve organizational performance. I examine that question using a national probability sample of...
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OECD labor markets have become more "polarized" with employment in the middle of the skill distribution falling relative to the top and (in recent years) also the bottom of the skill distribution. We test the hypothesis of Autor, Levy, and Murnane (2003) that this is partly due to information...
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In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...
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