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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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The Economic Consequences of Data Privacy Regulation : Empirical Evidence from GDPR

Aridor, Guy - 2020

This paper studies the effects of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on the ability of firms to collect …

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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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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D. - 2004

panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita …

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Information Technology and Patient Health : Analyzing Outcomes, Populations, and Mechanisms

Freedman, Seth - 2015

We study the effect of hospital adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) on health outcomes, particularly patient safety indicators (PSIs). We find evidence of a positive impact of EMRs on PSIs via decision support rather than care coordination. Consistent with this mechanism, we find an...

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