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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372425
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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
experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields and ages were invited to join a product development opportunity …
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
costlier or privacy-conscious consumers partially offset these benefits …
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437055
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
Almås, Ingvild - 2019
who were randomly assigned to different temperatures in a laboratory. We find that most dimensions of decision-making are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479735
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Don't Take 'No' For An Answer : An Experiment With Actual Organ Donor Registrations
Kessler, Judd B. - 2014
in California and show it decreased registration rates. Similarly, a "field in the lab" experiment run on actual organ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458288
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Confucianism and Preferences : Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China
Liu, Elaine M. - 2013
This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459046
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Neural Activity Reveals Preferences Without Choices
Smith, Alec - 2013
neural responses to the pertinent prospects when they are not engaged in actual decision making. The ability to make such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459390