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Some observers regard the Internet as the driving force of the recent economic upswing. So far, each innovation has … replace. Only gradually, e-commerce will take full advantage of the Internet's possibilities. The aim of this paper is to …
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create indices of Google internet search results for general AI awareness and about ChatGPT, normalizing alternatively by … internet users and land area. An understanding of the awareness about AI would provide useful insights into regulatory attempts … women has lower AI awareness when hits were normalized by area, but the reverse was true when weighted by internet users …
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technology services; it analyzes the resulting trade barriers. The functioning of the Internet (network structure, allocation of …
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Es wird vielfach vermutet, daß die Software-Industrie von starken Netzwerkeffekten geprägt ist. Doch wie hoch sind die Netzwerkeffekte wirklich? Für die Messung der Netzwerkeffekte bietet sich der hedonische Preisansatz an. Zwei Anwendungen des hedonischen Preisansatzes in der...
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Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...
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This paper considers the link between the local availability of services and a firm's decision to become a multinational. This is a highly topical issue, given that many industrialised countries are increasingly becoming services economies and firms become increasingly more globalised. In an...
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The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and policy debate. Despite its importance, there has been very little work to date on the impacts of compensation claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host...
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This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational enterprises in a cross- section of 19 Sub- Saharan countries. Investors' familiarity with formal and informal procedures in the host country lowers uncertainty and facilitates...
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We investigate the financial implications of a multinational firm's choice between outsourcing and integration from the perspective of the supplier. Using a simple model, we explore the extent to which an integrated supplier's access to finance, as well as its sources of funding, change relative...
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This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
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