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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 …'s launch. The second is that the actual receipt of sponsorship has a long-lasting negative effect on innovation, as measured by …
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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna - 2020
We study why high-priced acquisitions of entrants by an incumbent do not necessarily stimulate more innovation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481729
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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation - new products and processes based on … Schumpeter's vision, digital innovation gives rise to "winner-take-all" market structures, characterized by higher market power … digital non-rivalry, which allows for massive economies of scale and reduces costs of innovation. The latter stimulates higher …
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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458770
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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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Caught In The Middle : The Bias Against Startup Innovation With Technical And Commercial Challenges
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-based innovation system. We develop an analytical model where startups are more efficient at solving technical challenges and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814429
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Using Satellite Imagery and Deep Learning to Evaluate the Impact of Anti-Poverty Programs
Huang, Yue; Hsiang, Solomon; González-Navarro, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The rigorous evaluation of anti-poverty programs is key to the fight against global poverty. Traditional approaches rely heavily on repeated in-person field surveys to measure program effects. However, this is costly, time-consuming, and often logistically challenging. Here we provide the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599395
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Understanding Rural Households' Time Use in a Developing Setting : Validating a Low-Cost Time Use Module
Field, Erica Marie; Pande, Rohini; Rigol, Natalia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Time use data facilitate deeper understanding of individual labor supply choices, especially for women, who are more likely to engage in unpaid care and home production. However, traditional time use data collection methods are time-consuming, expensive and susceptible to significant attrition....
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479287
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The Effects of Primary Care Chronic-Disease Management in Rural China
Chen, Yiwei - 2019
Health systems globally face increasing morbidity and mortality from chronic disease, yet many--especially in low- and middle-income countries--lack strong primary care. We analyze China's efforts to promote primary care management for insured rural Chinese with chronic disease, analyzing unique...
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