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The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies

Goldstein, Itay - 2020

Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...

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Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

Arzaghi, Mohammad - 2008

This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the slow pace of change?...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation : Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - 2007

States during the 1990's, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be positively associated with organizational innovation. Employers … being part of a multi-establishment firm) are more likely to invest in organizational innovation. Investments in human …

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How Does Information Technology Really Affect Productivity? Plant-Level Comparisons of Product Innovation, Process Improvement and Worker Skills

Bartel, Ann P. - 2005

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work …

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Hi-tech Innovation and Productivity Growth : Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Gordon, Robert J. - 2003

This paper argues that the late 1990s boom in ICT investment was unsustainable for both macro and micro reasons; we are unlikely again to witness an interval in which computer hardware investment grows at an annual rate greater than 30 percent for five straight years. Analysts who base their...

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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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Privacy and Innovation

Goldfarb, Avi - 2011

the extent and direction of data-based innovation. We also show that the impact of privacy regulation can be extremely … heterogeneous. Therefore, we argue that digitization means that privacy policy is now a part of innovation policy …

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Innovating Standards Through Informal Consortia : The Case of Wireless Telecommunications

Delcamp, Henry R. - 2012

We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R …) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for …

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Techies and Firm Level Productivity

Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion within firms. Using …

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