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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …
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Pricing by International Airline Alliances : A Retrospective Study Using Supplementary Foreign-Carrier Fare Data
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019
This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long sample period, which runs from 1997 to 2016, and it supplements the usual USDOT fare data with confidential fare data reported by the foreign alliance partners of US carriers....
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Race Meets Bargaining in Product Development
Karagözoğlu, Emin - 2020
We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of … world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely … aspects of product and labour market regulation which have implications for technological innovation, such as product and …
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Green Technology Adoption, Complexity, and the Role of Public Policy : A Simple Theoretical Model
Dhami, Sanjit - 2023
We consider technology choices between green and brown technologies by firms. We use insights from complexity theory and also take account of true uncertainty in designing public policy. The green technology offers relatively higher returns to scale from adoption, and there are type-contingent...
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Ten Facts on Declining Business Dynamism and Lessons from Endogenous Growth Theory
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861425
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Two-Sided Platforms and Biases in Technology Adoption
Choi, Jay Pil - 2020
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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Peer Effects in Product Adoption
Bailey, Michael - 2019
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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Organizational Barriers to Transforming Large Finance Corporations : Cloud Adoption and the Importance of Technological Architecture
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing); Iansiti, Marco - 2023
This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption – which reflects in the lack of data...
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The Diffusion of Technological Progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2021
We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
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