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Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence

Brynjolfsson, Erik; Aral, Sinan; Alstyne, Marshall Van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In an effort to reveal the fine-grained relationships between IT use, patterns of information flows, and individual information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level and individual-level performance using: (1)...

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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change

Newell, Richard; Jaffe, Adam; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...

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Population and Ideas: A Theory of Endogenous Growth

Jones, Charles I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

Why do economies exhibit sustained growth in per capita income? This paper argues that endogenous fertility and … increasing returns to scale are the fundamental ingredients in understanding endogenous growth. Endogenous fertility leads the … fundamental insight of the idea-based growth literature according to this view. Endogenous fertility together with the increasing …

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Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the Japan and the United States

Branstetter, Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996

In a number of theoretical models, it has been shown that technological externalities can generate multiple equilibria in the global pattern of specialization and trade, with different consequences for the relative welfare of the trading countries. In such models, temporary government policies...

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Patent Reform: Aligning Reward and Contribution

Shapiro, Carl - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Economists and policy makers have long recognized that innovators must be able to appropriate a reasonable portion of the social benefits of their innovations if innovation is to be suitably rewarded and encouraged. However, this paper identifies a number of specific fact patterns under which...

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

progress and technology adoption. In standard endogenous growth models, which feature a strong scale effect, an increase in the … in the growth literature. …

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The "Names Game": Harnessing Inventors' Patent Data for Economic Research

Trajtenberg, Manuel; Shiff, Gil; Melamed, Ran - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The goal of this paper is to lay out a methodology and corresponding computer algorithms, that allow us to extract the detailed data on inventors contained in patents, and harness it for economic research. Patent data has long been used in empirical research in economics, and yet the information...

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ICT Use in the Developing World: An Analysis of Differences in Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie; Fairlie, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

value of stocks traded, is also important to the growth rate of Internet use. …

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What is a Company Really Worth? Intangible Capital and the "Market to Book Value" Puzzle

Hulten, Charles R.; Hao, Xiaohui - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

"What is a company really worth?" is a question asked repeatedly during the recent financial crisis. Attention has been focused on short-term valuation issues, like the "mark-to-market" controversy. Sorting out these issues is complicated by the fact that the market puts a value on shareholder...

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Technology and Economic Performance in the American Economy

Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

accompanying revival of productivity growth, directly contributed both to faster output growth and to holding down the inflation … the Fed to maintain an easy monetary policy that fueled rapid growth in real demand, profits, and stock prices, which fed … back into growth of consumption in excess of growth in income. The technological acceleration was made possible in part by …

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