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Investment Subsidies and the Adoption of Electronic Medical Records in Hospitals
Dranove, David - 2014
Health Act (HITECH). HITECH provides up to $27 billion to promote adoption and appropriate use of Electronic Medical Records … (EMR) by hospitals. We measure the extent to which HITECH incentive payments spurred EMR adoption by independent hospitals …. Adoption rates for all independent hospitals grew from 48 percent in 2008 to 77 percent by 2011. Absent HITECH incentives, we …
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Information, Technology Adoption and Productivity : The Role of Mobile Phones in Agriculture
Gupta, Apoorv - 2020
We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our empirical strategy … higher adoption of high yielding varieties of seeds and other complementary inputs, as well as higher increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481775
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Privacy and Innovation
Goldfarb, Avi - 2011
Information and communication technology now enables firms to collect detailed and potentially intrusive data about their customers both easily and cheaply. This means that privacy concerns are no longer limited to government surveillance and public figures' private lives. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461534
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy - 2000
establishments is linked to differential rates of technological adoption across establishments. Our findings are supportive of these …
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Could Machine Learning be a General Purpose Technology? A Comparison of Emerging Technologies Using Data from Online Job Postings
Goldfarb, Avi; Taska, Bledi; Teodoridis, Florenta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
General purpose technologies (GPTs) push out the production possibility frontier and are of strategic importance to managers and policymakers. While theoretical models that explain the characteristics, benefits, and approaches to create and capture value from GPTs have advanced significantly,...
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Transatlantic Technologies : The Role of ICT in the Evolution of U.S. and European Productivity Growth
Gordon, Robert J. - 2020
We examine the role of the ICT revolution in driving productivity growth behavior for the United States and an aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is deficient when it separates sources of growth between...
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International Differences in the Adoption and Impact of New Information Technologies and New HR Practices : The Valve-Making Industry in the U.S. and U.K
Bartel, Ann - 2007
organizational changes have the same rates of adoption and impact internationally. We have assembled a unique dataset on plants in … result of the adoption of the new technology, plants in both countries have shifted production to customized products …. Finally, we find that, in both countries, the adoption of the new IT-enhanced technology coincides with increases in the skill …
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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007
Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465497
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Patterns of Comovement : The Role of Information Technology in the U.S. Economy
Chun, Hyunbae - 2004
Firm-specific variation in stock returns and fundamental performance measures is significantly higher in industries that have a history of more investment in information technology (IT). We hypothesise that IT is associated with creative destruction or product differentiation, either of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467750
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The Case of the Missing Productivity Growth : Or, Does Information Technology Explain why Productivity Accelerated in the US but not the UK?
Basu, Susanto - 2003
We argue that unmeasured investments in intangible organizational capital associated with the role of information and communications technology (ICT) as a general purpose technology' can explain the divergent U.S. and U.K. TFP performance after 1995. GPT stories suggest that measured TFP should...
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