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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
introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled organizations and individuals alike to reward developers for their open source work … on the platform. To study this program, we collect fine-grained data on about 100,000 GitHub users, their activities, and … new repository creation, regardless of the amount of money received. We estimate a similar decline in other community …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510617
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210090
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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,...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468288
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437055
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International Capital Mobility and Crowding Out in the U.S. Economy : Imperfect Integration of Financial Markets or of Goods Markets?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1985
Conventional wisdom in the field of international finance holds that the U.S. economy has become so open financiallly as to be characterized by perfect capital mobility: a highly elastic supply of foreign capital prevents the domestic rate of return from rising significantly above the world rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477303
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Storm Crowds : Evidence from Zooniverse on Crowd Contribution Design
Barbosu, Sandra - 2017
belonging to a community, and symbolic rewards within crowdsourcing websites. One factor that has received limited attention in …Crowdsourcing - a collaborative form of content production based on the contributions of large groups of individuals … the existing literature is how the design of crowdsourcing platforms affects their sustainability. We study whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453759
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Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Partisanship on Asset Prices
Bianchi, Francesco; Kung, Howard; Cram, Roberto Gómez - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We measure the individual and collective viewpoints of US Congress members on various economic policies by scraping their Twitter accounts. Tweets that criticize (support) a particular company are associated with a significant negative (positive) stock price reaction in a narrow time window...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510628
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Doctors' and Nurses' Social Media Ads Reduced Holiday Travel and COVID-19 Infections : A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial
Breza, Emily; Stanford, Fatima Cody; Alsan, Marcella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
During the COVID-19 epidemic, many health professionals started using mass communication on social media to relay critical information and persuade individuals to adopt preventative health behaviors. Our group of clinicians and nurses developed and recorded short video messages to encourage...
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