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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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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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An economic analysis of blockchains

Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2018

The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of...

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Attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan : empirical evidence from a nationwide survey

Asadi, Mohammad Haroon; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2024

This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and tertiary levels, as well as studying in another province or abroad, through the lens of identity theory and the intra-household bargaining framework. We use data from Afghan...

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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …

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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003

Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...

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Speed 2.0 : evaluating access to universal digital highways

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Valetti, … - 2015

This paper shows that having access to a fast Internet connection is an important determinant of capitalization effects … average property from a high-speed first-generation broadband connection (offering Internet speed up to 8 Mbit/s) would …

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The effect of Internet piracy on CD sales : cross-section evidence

Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004

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Transparency and tacit collusion in a differentiated market

Schultz, Christian - 2002

This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...

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