effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary …We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy … education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment …

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …

The rate of regional growth of new knowledge in the field of nanotechnology, as measured by counts of articles and … stocks of recorded knowledge in all scientific fields, and the extent to which tacit knowledge in all fields flows between … patenting. The data provide further support for the cumulative advantage model of knowledge production, and for ongoing efforts …

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New … opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally excludable and appropriable. Team production allows more knowledge … capture of tacit, complex discoveries by firm scientists. A robust indicator of a firm's tacit knowledge capture (and strong …

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 establishments, clear measures of IT-driven knowledge management practices, and …

This paper assesses different organizational forms in terms of their ability to generate information about investment … likely to be attractive when information about individual projects is soft' and cannot be credibly transmitted. Moreover …, holding fixed firm size, soft information also favors flatter organizations with fewer layers of management. In contrast …

We introduce information frictions into a tractable quantitative multi-country multi-sector model with global value …' information sets with new quarterly data containing the frequencies of country-industry-specific economic news reports by 11 … information frictions are amplified by the global production network. These information frictions appear as correlated labor …

resistant to retractions (the revoking of earlier information). Our experimental design allows us to identify updating from … retractions - unlearning - and to compare it with updating from equivalent new information - learning. Across different kinds of … from equivalent new information. While we document a number of well-known biases in belief updating in our data, our …

A model of interest rate movements in response to new information on the money stock is developed.The model, which …