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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms … have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms … has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity among Indian software developers, there is very little systematic …

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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

This paper compares the impact of new IT-enhanced technology on the efficiency of production in the U.S. and the U.K. for one manufacturing industry, valve manufacturing. There is a long-standing question of whether technological change and organizational changes have the same rates of adoption...

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The Complementary Role of Exports and R&D Investments as Sources of Productivity Growth

Aw, Bee Yan - 2005

This paper examines two potential channels of knowledge acquisition that underlie firm productivity growth in the Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on the argument that a firm's own investments in R&D are...

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Competition in the Computer Industry

Goolsbee, Austan - 2001

This paper estimates the relative price sensitivity of individuals' choice of whether to buy computers online versus in retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of competition between the two channels, the paper...

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Whither Flat Panel Displays?

Krishna, Kala - 1996

This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...

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Sizing up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017

We argue that existence of public good does not necessarily imply market failure, and illustrate this point in the context of international trade. An influential hypothesis states that export pioneers are too few relative to social optimum because the first exporter's action creates an...

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An Options-Based Analysis of Emerging Market Exchange Rate Expectations : Brazil's Real Plan, 1994-1997

Campa, Jose M. - 1999

This paper uses currency option data from the BMF, the Commodities and Futures exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to investigate market expectations on the Brazilian Real-U.S. dollar exchange rate from October 1994 through July 1997. Using options data, we derive implied probability density...

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Does management matter? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

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