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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 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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In this paper, we review the literature on declining business dynamism and its implications in the United States and …
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,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with information on the incidence of epidemics and local 3G internet infrastructure …
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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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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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This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of …
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and … interactive effects. The paper adopts the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach proposed by Pesaran (2006) and Chudik and … the time series dimension of the panel is large. We present an application to the evaluation of Time-of-Use pricing using …
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This paper focuses on the analysis of the long-run response of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) to political risks and … Cross- Sectionally Augmented ARDL approach of Chudik and Pesaran (2015b), and the panel threshold estimation of Chudik et al …
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