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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials

Ho, Lisa Y.; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...

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The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change : From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty

Autor, David H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This review considers the evolution of economic thinking on the relationship between digital technology and inequality across four decades, encompassing four related but intellectually distinct paradigms, which I refer to as the education race, the task polarization model, the...

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Scaling Smart Contracts via Layer-2 Technologies : Some Empirical Evidence

Cong, Lin William; Hui, Xiang; Tucker, Catherine; Zhou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Blockchain-based smart contracts can potentially replace certain traditional contracts through decentralized enforcement and reduced transaction costs. However, scalability is a key bottleneck hindering their broader application and adoption, often leading to concentrated or exclusive networks....

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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 streamlining the licensing process of intellectual property (IP). It notes that in the traditional world, there can be a tension between inventors and developers when it comes to...

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Agrawal, Ajay; Gans, Joshua; Goldfarb, Avi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Economic models provide little insight into when the next big idea and its associated productivity dividend will come along. Once a general purpose technology (GPT) is identified, the economist's toolkit does provide an understanding when firms will adopt a new technology and for what purpose....

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Tasks At Work : Comparative Advantage, Technology and Labor Demand

Acemoglu, Daron; Kong, Fredric; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This chapter reviews recent advances in the task model and shows how this framework can be put to work to understand the major labor market trends of the last several decades. Production in each industry necessitates the completion of a range of tasks, which can be allocated to workers of...

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Regulating the Direction of Innovation

Gans, Joshua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We develop a model with two competing technological paths and analyze various regulatory interventions. Our findings show that market forces tend to inefficiently concentrate...

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Who Blows the Whistle on Corporate Fraud?

Dyck, Alexander - 2007

What external control mechanisms are most effective in detecting corporate fraud? To address this question we study in … depth all reported cases of corporate fraud in companies with more than 750 million dollars in assets between 1996 and 2004 …. We find that fraud detection does not rely on one single mechanism, but on a wide range of, often improbable, actors …

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Unethical Culture, Suspect CEOs and Corporate Misbehavior

Biggerstaff, Lee - 2013

We show that firms with CEOs who personally benefitted from options backdating were more likely to engage in other forms of corporate misbehavior, suggestive of an unethical corporate culture. These firms were more likely to overstate firm profitability and to engage in less profitable...

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Trust and Cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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