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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth
DeStefano, Timothy - 2020
Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed...
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Let's Switch to the Cloud : Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264871
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Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427730
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290052
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...
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Priority Roads: The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
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How productive is public capital?: a meta-analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D.; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2008
The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a full' Generalized Least...
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Toward a sustainable transport development in Asia and the Pacific
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2011
Despite remarkable growth during the last decade, Asia and the Pacific still faces extensive basic infrastructure needs … region needs to enhance its connectivity through developing transport infrastructure at the national and regional level to … infrastructure will have profound implications on environment and climate change at the national, regional and global levels as well …
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The Impact of the Shale Oil Revolution on U.S. Oil and Gasoline Prices
Kilian, Lutz - 2016
This article examines how the shale oil revolution has shaped the evolution of U.S. crude oil and gasoline prices. It puts the evolution of shale oil production into historical perspective, highlights uncertainties about future shale oil production, and cautions against the view that the U.S....
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