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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076705
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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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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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The business environment in the transition
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - 2012
faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth : Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
long-run evolution of local economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216257
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Funding U.S. Infrastructure
Malley, James R.; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2022
This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure … types of infrastructure spending and linkages between the final and intermediate goods sectors. We find that infrastructure … multipliers above unity if infrastructure spending and rising public debt are financed by consumption, dividend and labour income …
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Priority of Unemployed Immigrants? A Causal Machine Learning Evaluation of Training in Belgium
Cockx, Bart - 2020
Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
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