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Adoption of New Information and Communications Technologies in the Workplace Today

Bresnahan, Timothy - 2016

The invention of new applications based on information and communications technologies (ICTs) has had two economic effects up to now. These applications have transformed production, creating value for applications-inventing companies and their customers and increasing economic growth through...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Productivity, Computerization, and Skill Change

Wolff, Edward N. - 2002

Using pooled cross-section, time-series data for 44 industries over the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s in the United States, I find no econometric evidence that computer investment is positively linked to TFP growth (over and above its inclusion in the TFP measure). However,...

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The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D

Branstetter, Lee G. - 2018

Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...

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Investing in Bank Lending Technology : IT Spending in Banking

He, Zhiguo; Jiang, Sheila; Xu, Douglas; Yin, Xiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the economics behind the investment in information technologies (IT) by U.S. commercial banks in the past decade. By linking banks' IT spending to their lending technologies, we analyze the distinctive natures of banks' dealings with information across various lending...

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Automated Economic Reasoning with Quantifier Elimination

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2016

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Organization and Inequality in a Knowledge Economy

Garicano, Luis - 2005

We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an essential input in production: a … may produce on their own or in organizations. Our theory generates an assignment of workers to positions, a wage structure … referral markets. We use our theory to study the impact of information and communication technology, and contrast its …

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Importing Skill-Biased Technology

Burstein, Ariel - 2011

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it is complementary to skilled labor. Most countries import a large share of their capital equipment, and by doing so import skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a...

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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption

Ryan, Stephen P. - 2011

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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Securing Their Future? Entry And Survival In The Information Security Industry

Arora, Ashish - 2007

In this paper we study how the existence of a functioning market for technology differentially conditions the entry strategy and survival of different types of entrants, and the role of scale, marketing ability and technical assets. Markets for technology facilitate entry of firms that lack...

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