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Processing Immigration Shocks : Firm Responses on the Innovation Margin

Gray, Rowena - 2017

. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …

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Firms' Innovation Strategy under the Shadow of Analyst Coverage

Guo, Bing - 2017

We study the effect of analyst coverage on firms' innovation strategy and outcome. By considering three different … negative effect becomes not significant when firms' in-house R&D spending and external innovation channels are taken into … account. We find that more financial analysts encourage firms to make more efficient investments related to innovation, which …

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Experimentation in Two-Sided Markets

Peitz, Martin - 2015

We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...

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Explaining Early Adoption on New Medicines : Regulation, Innovation and Scale

Varol, Nebibe - 2014

Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a crucial question in designing health systems. This paper addresses this question by examining how price expectations shape the probability of launch, controlling for competition,...

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Technology Adoption in Education : Usage, Spillovers and Student Achievement

Bergman, Peter - 2016

Given significant expenditures on education technologies, an important question is whether these products are adopted by their end users and are effective in practice. This paper studies the adoption, diffusion, and effects of one type of technology that is increasingly ubiquitous:...

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Was Obama Elected by the Internet? Broadband Diffusion and Voters' Behavior in US Presidential Elections

Larcinese, Valentino; Miner, Luke - 2021

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that...

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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics

Callaway, Brantly; Ghosal, Vivek - 2021

We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...

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The Diffusion of New Institutions : Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System

Comino, Stefano - 2017

What factors affect the diffusion of new economic institutions? This paper examines this question exploiting the introduction of the first regularized patent system which appeared in the Venetian Republic in 1474. We begin by developing a model which links patenting activity of craft guilds with...

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norback, Pehr-Johan - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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Innovation, Trade, and Finance

Egger, Peter H. - 2013

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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