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This research investigates product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We show that empirical …
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We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of … human capital and with manufacturing trade openness vis-a-vis the OECD. We also find evidence that computer adoption is …
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We propose a text-based method for measuring and analyzing the international propagation of uncertainty shocks at the firm level. We apply this method to estimate the impact of Brexit-related uncertainty and find widespread reverberations on listed firms in 81 countries. International firms most...
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We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...
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This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in Ramp;D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in Ramp;D...
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This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...
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This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...
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retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of … for a computer in a retail store as a function of characteristics. The coefficients on the city fixed effects in these … type of customer and type of computer. Conditional on buying a computer, the overall elasticity of buying remotely with …
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-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …. Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it …
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Computers are an important part of modern education, yet many schoolchildren lack access to a computer at home. We test … computers to students. Although computer ownership and use increased substantially, we find no effects on any educational …
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