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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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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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Pork, infrastructure and growth : evidence from the Italian railway expansion
Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021
long-run evolution of local economies. …
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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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The long-run evolution of infrastructure services
Goldsmith, Hugh - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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Connective financing Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
Bluhm, Richard; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2020
This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure … regression model with observations of the size and quality of infrastructure and social services in the villages and with … infrastructure and social services in adjacent villages. The results suggest that large-scale private forest plantations can …
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Cryptocurrencies, technology stocks, Covid-19 and US policy responses: a fractional integration analysis
Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2022
This paper assesses the impact of US policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic on various cryptocurrencies and also technology stocks using fractional integration techniques. More precisely, it analyses the behaviour of the percentage returns in the case of nine major coins (Bitcoin - BITC,...
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On the causes and consequences of deviations from rational behavior
Zēgners, Dainis; Sunde, Uwe; Strittmatter, Anthony - 2020
This paper presents novel evidence for the prevalence of deviations from rational behavior in human decision making – and for the corresponding causes and consequences. The analysis is based on move-by-move data from chess tournaments and an identification strategy that compares behavior of...
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