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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development a Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish; Asundi, Jai - 2021
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
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Human Capital and the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish - 2010
Though previous studies have noted the role of skilled labor in the growth of the Indian software industry, they have not empirically investigated its importance. In this study we study the effect of the supply of engineers, measured by engineering baccalaureate capacity, on the regional growth...
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Mathur, Aparna; Attaran, Amir - 2021
tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely … explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
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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
This paper documents a shift in the nature of innovation in the information technology (IT) industry. Using comprehensive data on all IT patents granted by the USPTO from 1980-2002, we find strong evidence of a change in IT innovation that is systematic, substantial, and increasingly dependent...
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Patents, Thickets, and the Financing of Early-Stage Firms : Evidence from the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2014
The impact of stronger intellectual property rights in the software industry is controversial. One means by which patents can affect technical change, industry dynamics, and ultimately welfare, is through their role in stimulating or stifling entry by new ventures. Patents can block entry, or...
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Entry and Patenting in the Software Industry
Cockburn, Iain M. - 2014
To what extent are firms kept out of a market by patents covering related technologies? Do patents held by potential entrants make it easier to enter markets? We estimate the empirical relationship between market entry and patents for 27 narrowly defined categories of software products during...
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The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries
Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - 2022
The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...
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U.S. V. Microsoft : Did Consumers Win?
Evans, David A.; Evans, David S.; Nichols, Albert L.; … - 2022
U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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The Service Sector as India's Road to Economic Growth
Eichengreen, Barry - 2011
While India is distinctive among developing countries for its fast-growing service sector, sceptics have raised doubts …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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