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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...
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Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers … contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the …
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knowledge work. Here, I analyze spatial collaboration patterns of some 191 thousand software developers in the United States on …
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matched-model price indexes for personal computer database software. Our database covers the price development in Germany from … 1986 to 1994. Quality-adjusted software prices decline by 7.4 percent according to our hedonic index. Surprisingly, a … software product. The estimation results also confirm the importance of network effects. Code compatibility, i.e. the …
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