We use data on imports of computer equipment for a large sample of countries between 1 970 and 1990 to investigate the … determinants of computer-technology adoption. We find strong evidence that computer adoption is associated with higher levels of … human capital and with manufacturing trade openness vis-a-vis the OECD. We also find evidence that computer adoption is …

This research investigates product life cycles in the commercial mainframe computer market. We show that empirical …

retail stores using a new data source on the computer purchase behavior of more than 20,000 people. To estimate the degree of … for a computer in a retail store as a function of characteristics. The coefficients on the city fixed effects in these … type of customer and type of computer. Conditional on buying a computer, the overall elasticity of buying remotely with …

A quantum computer exhibits a quantum advantage when it can perform a calculation that a classical computer is unable … to complete. It follows that a company with a quantum computer would be a monopolist in the market for solving such a … calculation if its only competitor was a company with a classical computer. Conversely, economic outcomes are unclear in settings …

computer use within occupations converged to the same levels across age groups eventually. That is, there was a temporary …