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Organizational Responses to Product Cycles
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Bassi, Vittorio; Nyshadham, Anant; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use daily administrative data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new models to the auto assembly line. We first show that costly defects per vehicle spike when new models are introduced. As a response, the firm trains in problem-solving...
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The Role of Repugnance in Markets : How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway
Cawley, John H.; Eddelbuettel, Julia; Cunningham, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Economics has long studied how consumers respond to the disclosure of information about firms. We study a case in which the disclosed information is unrelated to the product or firm leadership, but which could still potentially affect consumer patronage through the mechanism of repugnance, as...
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Technology Adoption and Career Concerns : Evidence from the Adoption of Digital Technology in Motion Pictures
Goehring, Grant - 2024
This paper studies the impact of career concerns on technological change by analyzing the adoption of digital cinematography in the US motion picture industry. This setting allows us to collect rich data on the adoption of this new technology at the project-level (i.e., movie) as well as on the...
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Accelerating Innovation Ecosystems : The Promise and Challenges of Regional Innovation Engines
Guzman, Jorge; Murray, Fiona E. S.; Stern, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Motivated by the establishment of major U.S. Federal programs seeking to harness the potential of regional innovation … ecosystems, we assess the promise and challenges of place-based innovation policy interventions. Relative to traditional research … grants, place-based innovation policy interventions are not directed toward a specific research project but rather aim to …
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Investing with the Government : A Field Experiment in China
Colonnelli, Emanuele; Li, Bo; Liu, Ernest - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the demand for government participation in China's venture capital and private equity market. We conduct a large-scale, non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry service provider, through which we survey both sides of the market: the capital investors and...
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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Digital technologies and fintech firms have rapidly reshaped the consumer financial landscape in recent years, and have the potential to help consumers make better decisions and improve their financial health. Existing technologies such as autopay are also experiencing increased takeup, a trend...
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Improving Regulation for Innovation : Evidence from China's Pharmaceutical Industry
Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Yang, Jianan; Zhang, Yiran - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This study investigates how enhanced regulation can promote innovation, focusing on the impacts of a significant … recognized the improvement in drug innovation, as reflected in stock price adjustments post new drug registrations after the … latecomers could boost their innovation potential by adopting specific, effective regulatory practices from frontier countries …
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Blockchain for Timely Transfer of Intellectual Property
Cai, Dongling; Qian, Yi; Ning, Nan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This article adopts a marketing perspective to examine how blockchain technology can facilitate innovation by …
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Where Have All the "Creative Talents" Gone? Employment Dynamics of US Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Goldschlag, Nathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
entrant or incumbent firm. If the inventor works for the entrant the innovation is implemented and the entrant displaces the …
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Global Knowledge and Trade Flows : Theory and Measurement
Lind, Nelson; Ramondo, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the global innovation and diffusion of ideas by introducing trade into the model in Eaton and Kortum (1999 … intensity of innovation within countries over time and diffusion rates across countries. We find significant specialization … across the globe: some countries have high innovation rates, while other countries rely on diffusion. Although innovation is …
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