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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471530
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The Limits of Simple Implementation Intentions : Evidence from a Field Experiment on Making Plans to Exercise
Carrera, Mariana - 2018
the effect of a simple scalable planning intervention on a repeated behavior using a randomized design involving 877 … weeks. In contrast to recent studies, we find that the planning intervention did not have a positive effect on behavior and … planning is helpful and despite clear evidence that they engaged with the planning process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480612
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The Economic and Policy Consequences of Catastrophes
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2009
How likely is a catastrophic event that would substantially reduce the capital stock, GDP and wealth? How much should society be willing to pay to reduce the probability or impact of a catastrophe? We answer these questions and provide a framework for policy analysis using a general equilibrium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463277
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Time Preference, Time Discounting, and Smoking Decisions
Khwaja, Ahmed - 2006
and length of financial planning horizon, smokers are more impatient. However, neither of these measures is significantly … time preference and self-control, i.e., impulsivity and financial planning, are more closely related to the smoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466046
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Baby Boomer Retirement Security : the Roles of Planning, Financial Literacy, and Housing Wealth
Lusardi, Annamaria - 2006
estimates show that planning behavior can explain the differences in savings and why some people arrive close to retirement with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466077
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The Simple Economics of Open Source
Lerner, Josh - 2000
There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471170
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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics
Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191031
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The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions : Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley
Atkin, David; Chen, Keith; Popov, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the determinants of agglomeration. However, the existing literature studying patterns of geographic proximity in patent citations or industrial co-location has struggled to disentangle the benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334366
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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program
Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372425
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Waves of Creative Destruction : Customer Bases and the Dynamics of Innovation
Stein, Jeremy C. - 1994
This paper develops a model of repeated innovation with knowledge spillovers. The model's novel feature is that firms compete on two dimensions: 1) product quality or cost, where one firm's innovation ultimately spills over to other firms; and 2) distribution costs, where there are no spillovers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474137