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productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …
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An effective policy scheme to overcome the suboptimal low provision levels of global public goods is developed in this paper. By suggesting a decentralized approach to raise environmental public good provision levels we take account of the lack of a coercive global authority that is able to...
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We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...
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We consider technology choices between green and brown technologies by firms. We use insights from complexity theory …
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We study the nature of peer effects in the market for new cell phones. Our analysis builds on de-identified data from Facebook that combine information on social networks with information on users’ cell phone models. To identify peer effects, we use variation in friends’ new phone...
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We study the gains from trade in a model with oligopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and innovation, and … increases welfare via productivity improvements. In the calibrated version of the model we show that a trade-induced increase in … concentration contributes substantially to the gains from trade, mostly via its stimulating effect on innovation. Sizeable gains …
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experience contributes more to local firms' than to MNEs' productivity. In this case, experienced MNE workers are hired by …
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We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … database of patent applications from a cross-section of countries evidence is provided for the positive effect of flexibility … world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely …
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Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...
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