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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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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

unrestricted products released by for-profit firms. The reason is that a socially-minded entity has neither the incentive nor … ability to minimise the use of unrestricted AGI products in ex post competition with for-profit firms and cannot preempt the … AGI developed by for-profit firms ex ante …

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

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

different firms with different degrees of openness to disruption, we provide firm-level, patent level and cross-country evidence …, but we also show that once the effect of the sorting of young managers to firms that are more open to disruption is …

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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...

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When and How to Use Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure : Lessons From the International Experience

Engel, Eduardo - 2020

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have emerged as a new organizational form to provide public infrastructure over the last 30 years. Governments find them attractive because PPPs can be used to avoid fiscal check-and-balances and increase spending. At the same time, PPPs can lead to important...

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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

This paper summarizes economic research on investment in public infrastructure and introduces the findings of several new studies on this topic. It begins with a review of several potential justifications for the public sector's involvement in building, financing, and operating infrastructure,...

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Contractual Rigidity and Political Contestability : Revisiting Public Contract Renegotiations

Beuve, Jean; Moszoro, Marian W.; Spiller, Pablo T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We present a model of public procurement in which both contractual flexibility and political tolerance for contractual deviations determine renegotiations. In the model, contractual flexibility allows for adaptation without formal renegotiation while political tolerance for deviations decreases...

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Soft Budgets and Renegotiations in Public-Private Partnerships

Engel, Eduardo - 2009

. Our model of renegotiations leads to observable predictions: (i) in a competitive market, firms lowball their offers …

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