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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
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Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography
Bosker, Erik Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2021
For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are...
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More similar firms - More similar regions? On the role of firm heterogeneity for agglomeration
von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2012
In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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The Gilets Jaunes : Offline and Online
Boyer, Pierre - 2020
We study the Gilets jaunes movement, which blocked most of France off in November 2018. We first analyze the complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual...
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Mums Go Online : Is the Internet Changing the Demand for Healthcare?
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Nardotto, Mattia; Propper, Carol; … - 2021
We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China
Heblich, Stephan - 2019
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...
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The spatial organization of multinational firms
Defever, Fabrice - 2010
Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...
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Institutions and Structural Unemployment: Do Capital-Market Imperfections Matter?
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer - 2001
This paper analyzes whether differences in institutional structures on capital markets contribute to explaining why some OECD-countries, in particular the Anglo-Saxon countries, have been much more successful over the last two decades in producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment...
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: A Panel Data Analysis
Belke, Ansgar; Fehn, Rainer; Foster, Neil - 2002
Labor market performance has differed considerably between OECD countries over the last two decades. The focus of the literature so far has been to ask whether these differences can be explained by varying degrees of labor market rigidities and generosity of welfare states. This paper takes a...
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