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The following paper assesses whether current policy environments are appropriate for the emergence of cloud computing technology. In particular, this research uses firm-level data for Germany and the UK to examine the impact of capital incentive programmes (a common policy present in most OECD...
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We analyze competition between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) where consumers demand heterogeneous content within … Delivery Networks (CDNs). While the use of CDNs is welfare neutral, it results in higher consumer prices for internet access …
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Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established … firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access … to the first generation of broadband internet and later speed upgrades by exploiting technological peculiarities of the …
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The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a careeroriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported...
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In this Discussion Paper, we focus our analysis on the Lattes Platform - a public initiative developed endogenously in the late 1990s which was very innovative - since it is a representative case of a scientific platform and is a paramount tool for the Brazilian scientific system. Although there...
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We look at the effect of capital rules on a banking system that is connected through correlated credit exposures and interbank lending. The rules, which combine individual bank characteristics and interconnectivity measures of interbank lending, are to minimize a measure of system-wide losses....
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