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Organizational barriers to transforming large finance corporations : cloud adoption and the importance of technological architecture
Cao, Ruiqing; Iansiti, Marco - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: February 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...
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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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Do capital incentives distort technology diffusion? : evidence on cloud, big data and AI
DeStefano, Timothy; Johnstone, Nick; Kneller, Richard; … - 2024
The arrival of cloud computing provides firms a new way to access digital technologies as digital services. Yet, capital incentive policies present in every OECD country are still targeted towards investments in informational technology (IT) capital. If cloud services are partial substitutes for...
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Cloud computing and firm growth
DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan - 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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Competition for promotion can induce household specialization between equally competitive spouses
Bastani, Spencer; Dickmanns, Lisa; Giebe, Thomas; … - 2022
asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare …
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Fiscal autonomy and self-setermination
Loumeau, Gabriel; Stettler, Christian - 2021
characteristics of the Canton of Bern using household-level data. In particular, we exploit quasi-natural policy variation in voting …
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Information technology in banking and entrepreneurship
Ahnert, Toni; Dörr, Sebastian; Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, … - 2024
We study the importance of information technology (IT) in banking for entrepreneurship. Guided by a parsimonious model, we establish that job creation by young firms is stronger in US counties more exposed to banks with greater IT adoption. We present evidence consistent with banks’ IT...
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The effect of benefits level on take-up rates : evidence from a natural experiment
Dahan, Momi (contributor); Nisan, Udi (contributor) - 2007
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Does size matter? : the impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
household structure is widely neglected. Societal trends like a decline in birth rate and an increase in the risk of divorce … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in … inequality was indeed more due to changes of household structure and employment behavior rather than changes in wages. Moreover …
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Announcing climate policy : can a green paradox arise without scarcity?
Smulders, Sjak; Tsur, Yaʿaḳov; Zemel, Amos - 2010
Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a "Green-Paradox", in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
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