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The Impact of R&D Subsidy on Innovation : A Study of New Zealand Firms

Jaffe, Adam B. - 2015

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

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Consumption Insurance in Networks with Asymmetric Information

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Krutikova, Sonya - 2022

This paper uses a dataset from Tanzania with information on consumption, income and income shocks within and across …

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The Link between Manufacturing Growth and Accelerated Services Growth in India

Dehejia, Rajeev H. - 2014

The impact of trade liberalization on manufacturing growth has been widely studied in the literature. What has gone unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from...

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Innovation Network

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …

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Firm Volatility in Granular Networks

Kelly, Bryan T. - 2013

Firm volatilities co-move strongly over time, and their common factor is the dispersion of the economy-wide firm size distribution. In the cross section, smaller firms and firms with a more concentrated customer base display higher volatility. Network effects are essential to explaining the...

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Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks

Carvalho, Vasco M. - 2014

The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What determines which inputs are initially considered and eventually adopted by innovators? We examine the evolution of input linkages from a network perspective, starting from a stylized...

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Network Data

Graham, Bryan S. - 2019

Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...

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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Ryan, Stephen - 2014

We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...

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From Learning to Doing : Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau

Martins Caeiro, Rute - 2022

This paper analyzes the role of social networks in the diffusion of knowledge and adoption of cultivation techniques, from trainees to the wider community, in the context of an extension project in Guinea-Bissau. In order to test for social learning, we exploit a detailed census of households...

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Adoption of Technologies with Network Effects : An Empirical Examination of the Adoption of Automated Teller Machines

Saloner, Garth; Shepard, Andrea - 2022

The literature on networks suggests that the value of a network is positively affected by the number of geographically dispersed locations it serves (the "network effect") and the number of its users (the "production scale effect"). We show that as a result a firm's expected time until adoption...

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