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On the evolution of market institutions : the platform design paradox

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos (contributor); … - 2007

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E-exchange and the boundary between households and organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Wikström, Solveig - 2002

The new information and communication technology, ICT, induces households to take over tasks from firms and government agencies, using tools and systems provided by these very same organizations. The result is often joint production activities. We argue that the importance of ICT for the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514007

The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

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The organization of knowledge in multinational firms : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Global Economy, May 2014

Gumpert, Anna - 2015

This paper provides the first in-depth study of the organization of knowledge in multinational firms. The paper develops a theoretical model that studies how firms optimally split knowledge between their headquarters and their production plants if communication costs impede the access of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281300

Knowledge flows and knowledge externalities

Peri, Giovanni - 2002

The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining productivity. We first estimate the determinants of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410671

Flow of ideas : economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik; Koschnick, Julius - 2022

Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3,300 members across active economic societies in...

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ICT, collaboration, and science-based innovation : evidence from BITNET

Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020

Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration...

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Mind the knowledge gap! : the origins of declining business dynamism in a macro agent-based model

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Terranova, Roberta; Turco, Enrico - 2023

In this paper we replicate most of the stylized facts characterizing the decline in business dynamism in the USA highlighted by Akcigit and Ates (2021) and provide an explanation of their emergence by means of a macroeconomic agent-based model populated by two types of firms: innovators who...

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Taxes in an e-commerce generation

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2016

Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...

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The internet as a tax haven?

Agrawal, David R. - 2021

If online transactions are tax-free, increased online shopping may lower tax rates as jurisdictions seek to reduce tax avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485221

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