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operating in knowledge intensive sectors and start-ups belonging to the remaining ones. This separation is done in order to … interpret the estimation results for start-ups in knowledge intensive sectors in a reliable way. The remaining firms serve as a …
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Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...
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How do geographic frictions affect firm organization? We show theoretically and empirically that geographic frictions increase the use of middle managers in multi-establishment firms. In our model, we assume that a CEO's time is a resource in limited supply, shared across headquarters and...
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Women are less financially literate than men. It is unclear whether this gap reflects a lack of knowledge or, rather, a … measuring financial knowledge, but when this response option is unavailable, they often choose the correct answer. We estimate a …-third of the financial literacy gender gap can be explained by women’s lower confidence levels. Both financial knowledge and …
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withdrawal of its services from mainland China to assess the importance of access to information for the knowledge production … function of scientific scholars in the field of economics. For economists, a type of scholar with a simple knowledge production …
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have, on average, positive causal treatment effects on financial knowledge and downstream financial behaviors. Treatment …
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It is a challenge and often still a methodological gap in participation processes how different knowledge can be …
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In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …
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