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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment

Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry : Early Evidence from Open Banking

Babina, Tania; Bahaj, Saleem; Buchak, Greg; De Marco, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Open banking (OB) empowers bank customers to share transaction data with fintechs and other banks. 49 countries have adopted OB policies. Consumer trust in fintechs predicts OB policy adoption and adoption spurs investment in fintechs. UK microdata shows that OB enables: i) consumers to access...

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Can Socially-Minded Governance Control the AGI Beast?

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper robustly concludes that it cannot. A model is constructed under idealised conditions that presume the risks associated with artificial general intelligence (AGI) are real, that safe AGI products are possible, and that there exist socially-minded funders who are interested in funding...

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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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Business Method Patents, Innovation, and Policy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2003

The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...

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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age : Economics and Methodology

Danaher, Brett - 2013

Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many...

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Accelerating Vaccine Innovation for Emerging Infectious Diseases via Parallel Discovery

Barberio, Joseph; Becraft, Jacob; Ben Chaouch, Zied; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the financial performance of a hypothetical portfolio of 120 mRNA vaccine candidates in the preclinical … performance is the price per dose, while the increased probability of success due to mRNA technology, adjusting the size of the … portfolio, and the possibility of conducting human challenge trials do not significantly improve financial performance. These …

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Tech-Driven Intermediation in the Originate-to-Distribute Model

He, Zhiguo; Jiang, Sheila; Xu, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to examine the role of information technology when intermediaries facilitate the origination and distribution of assets given information asymmetry. Information technology measures the informativeness of asset-quality signals received by...

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Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation : Illustrations from Server Software Usage

Murciano-Goroff, Raviv; Zhuo, Ran; Greenstein, Shane M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...

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