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Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals
Dranove, David - 2014
In February 2009 the U.S. Congress unexpectedly passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by hospitals. We measure the extent to which...
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Upstream Product Market Regulations, ICT, R&D and Productivity
Cette, Gilbert - 2013
relating R&D and ICT capital to upstream regulations. These relations are estimated on the basis of an unbalanced panel of 15 …
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Economic Research on Privacy Regulation : Lessons from the GDPR and Beyond
Johnson, Garrett - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper reviews the economic literature on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). I … highlight key challenges for studying the regulation including the difficulty of finding a suitable control group, variable firm … compliance and regulatory enforcement, as well as the regulation's impact on data observability. The economic literature on the …
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Right-to-Carry Laws and Violent Crime : A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data, the LASSO, and a State-Level Synthetic Controls Analysis
Donohue, John J. - 2017
Our preferred panel data regression specification (the "DAWmodel") and the Brennan Center (BC) model, as well as other … panel data estimates of the increase in violent crime will be understated … handgun laws, but because of model dependence the panel was unable to identify the true causal effect of these laws from the …
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2012
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of...
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Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation : A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier
Benhabib, Jess - 2017
We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and generate aggregate growth. We model firms that choose to innovate, adopt technology, or produce with their existing technology. Costly adoption creates a spread between the best...
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Spatial Growth and Industry Age
Desmet, Klaus - 2007
U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory where local sectoral growth is driven by technological...
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Algorithms and the Changing Frontier
Agwara, Hezekiah - 2014
We first summarize the dominant interpretations of the "frontier" in the United States and predecessor colonies over the past 400 years: agricultural (1610s-1880s), industrial (1890s-1930s), scientific (1940s- 1980s), and algorithmic (1990s-present). We describe the difference between the...
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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K
Bartel, Ann - 2007
This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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General Purpose Technologies
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2005
Electricity and Information Technology (IT) are perhaps the two most important general purpose technologies (GPTs) to date. We analyze how the U.S. economy reacted to them. The Electricity and IT eras are similar, but also differ in several important ways. Electrification was more broadly...
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