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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022
We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013298326
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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills
Bartel, Ann P.; Ichniowski, Casey; Shaw, Kathryn L. - 2021
manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244133
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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
Economic studies typically underestimate incremental changes in consumer goods and design innovations that enhance allocative efficiency and structural dynamics. This paper assesses over 12,000 innovations by female patentees and participants in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964884
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Digital Capital and Superstar Firms
Tambe, Prasanna; Hitt, Lorin M.; Rock, Daniel; … - 2022
General purpose technologies like information technology typically require complementary firm-specific investments to create value. These complementary investments produce a form of capital, which is typically intangible and which we call digital capital. We create an extended firm-level panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243983
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The Impact of Information Technology on the Diffusion of New Pharmaceuticals
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2018
Do information differences across U.S. physicians contribute to treatment disparities? This paper uses a unique new dataset to evaluate how changes in physician access to a decision-relevant drug database affect prescribing decisions. Our results indicate that doctors using the reference have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934418
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Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income
Guellec, Dominique - 2017
top 1%. In this paper we argue that the growing importance of digital innovation – new products and processes based on … Schumpeter's vision, digital innovation gives rise to ”winner-take-all” market structures, characterized by higher market power … digital non-rivalry, which allows for massive economies of scale and reduces costs of innovation. The latter stimulates higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944156
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Quality Ladders and Product Cycles
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We develop a two-country model of endogenous innovation and imitation in order to study the interactions between these … maximizing entrepreneurs. The steady-state equilibrium is characterized by constant aggregate rates of innovation and imitation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235883
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252333
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Demography, Unemployment, Automation, and Digitalization : Implications for the Creation of (Decent) Jobs, 2010–2030
Bloom, David E. - 2018
Globally, an estimated 734 million jobs will be required between 2010 and 2030 to accommodate recent and ongoing demographic shifts, account for plausible changes in labour force participation rates, and achieve target unemployment rates of at or below 4 percent for adults and at or below 8...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914276
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Firm Scope and Spillovers from New Product Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices
Grennan, Matthew - 2018
policy, due to their potential to foreclose competition and affect innovation incentives. We exploit major new product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909115