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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/10013368656
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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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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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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power
Dahlberg, Matz (contributor); Lundqvist, Heléne (contributor) - 2008
that bureaucrats are able to, and do indeed, affect the allocation of grants within municipalities to support own goals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771859
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Acting autonomously or mimicking the state and peers? : a panel tobit analysis of financial dependence and aid allocation by Swiss NGOs
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; … - 2009
target aid to the poor and deserving are increasingly disputed. We contribute to the emerging literature on the allocation of …, we cover the allocation of both self-financed and officially co-financed aid for a large panel of NGOs and recipient … peers. Officially refinanced NGOs are more inclined to imitate the allocation of ODA. However, the degree of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832118
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An experimental investigation of colonel blotto games
Chowdhury, Subhasish M.; Kovenock, Daniel J.; … - 2009
. -- Colonel Blotto ; conflict resolution ; contest theory ; multi-dimensional resource allocation ; rent-seeking ; experiments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854423
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Voting on punishment systems within a heterogeneous group
Noussair, Charles; Tan, Fangfang - 2009
We consider a voluntary contributions game, in which players may punish others after contributions are made and observed. The productivity of contributions, as captured in the marginal-per-capita return, differs among individuals, so that there are two types: high and low productivity. Every two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882556
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Do permit allocations matter?
Verbon, Harrie; Withagen, Cees - 2010
of the system, under various institutional arrangements, through the initial allocation of permits. -- tradable permits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732350
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Think locally, act locally : spillovers, spillbacks, and efficient decentralized policymaking
Ogawa, Hikaru (contributor); Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623962
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On the private provision of contentious public characteristics
Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2012
We extend the standard public good provision model to allow players to either like or dislike the public characteristic. Those who dislike it are able to take actions to reduce its level. We present conditions under which the existence of a unique noncooperative equilibrium is retained, and...
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