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Information Technology and the Japanese Economy
Jorgenson, Dale W.; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - 2021
In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on … contribution of total factor productivity growth from the IT sector in Japan also increased, while the contributions of labor input … growth in Japan from for the next decade is substantially below that in the United States, mainly due to slower growth of …
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The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
Greenstein, Shane M.; Lizardo, Mercedes M.; Spiller, … - 2021
Is private industry investing in backbone digital technology in a manner consistent with social policy? To address this question we assemble highly disaggregate data and compute indices for the geographic distribution of advanced backbone information technology in computing and...
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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916620
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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today
Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016
The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988517
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Going Soft : How the Rise of Software Based Innovation Led to the Decline of Japan's it Industry and the Resurgence of Silicon Valley
Arora, Ashish - 2014
differential effects on the performance of the IT industries in the United States and Japan. Using a broad unbalanced panel of US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069641
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The Economics of Internet Markets
Levin, Jonathan - 2014
The internet has facilitated the creation of new markets characterized by large scale, increased customization, rapid …-commerce, internet job matching and financial exchanges, and other internet platforms. I also discuss the empirical evidence on … competition and consumer behavior in internet markets and some directions for future research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068482
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Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy : The Lack of Redundancy in Dns Resolution by Major Websites and Services
Bates, Samantha - 2018
This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927037
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Internet Rising, Prices Falling : Measuring Inflation in a World of E-Commerce
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2018
We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918079
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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel; Reiley, David; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - 2021
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224430
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Geography and the Internet : Is the Internet a Substitute or a Complement for Cities?
Sinai, Todd M.; Waldfogel, Joel - 2021
We study the tendency to connect to the Internet, and the online and offline shopping behavior of connected persons, to … draw inferences about whether the Internet is a substitute or a complement for cities. We document that larger markets have … content, suggesting the Internet is a complement to cities. Yet, holding local online content constant, people are less likely …
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