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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysit - 2015
, specificity, and the complexity, are analyzed by using firm level data in Turkey. This study has three main conclusions. As for …
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
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Calling the Greek Referendum on the Nose with Google Trends
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...
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Predicting the Irish "Gay Marriage" Referendum
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...
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Opinion Copulas, Homophily and Multimodal Marginals
Askitas, Nikos - 2017
An empirically founded and widely established driving force in opinion dynamics is homophily i.e. the tendency of "birds of a feather" to "flock together". The closer our opinions are the more likely it is that we will interact and converge. Models using these assumptions are called bounded...
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Relatedness, Complexity and Local Growth
Davies, Benjamin; Maré, David C. - 2019
shares, and use this measure to estimate city and activity complexity. Our approach extends discrete measures used in … quality between geographic areas with different sizes. We examine the contribution of relatedness and complexity to urban … dense with related activities. Relatedness and complexity appear to be most relevant for analysing how large, complex cities …
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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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Skills, Tasks, and Complexity
Gersbach, Hans; Schmassmann, Samuel - 2019
variety of applications. For instance, the automation of low-complexity tasks tends to reinforce labor market segmentation …. Moreover, comparatively small changes in a task's complexity, via new products, processes or automation, may have either a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179963
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The Ability Gradient in Bunching
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
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