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Competitive attention, superstars and the long tail
Hefti, Andreas; Lareida, Julia - 2021
We propose a model of competitive attention based on two key premises: i) People have limited information processing capacities and ii) consideration sets are formed according to relative salience. The equilibrium predictions we obtain can help to understand, and connect, diverse empirical...
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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014
This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....
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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high growth firms
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018
This paper addresses three simple questions: how should the contribution of HGFs to job creation be measured? how much does this contribution vary across countries? to what extent does the cross-country variation depend on variation in the proportion of HGFs in the business population? The first...
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Internationalization strategies of multi-product firms: The role of technology
Baumgarten, Daniel; Irlacher, Michael; Mayr, Karin - 2020
products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates. …
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Data, privacy laws and firm production: Evidence from the GDPR
Demirer, Mert; Jiménez Hernández, Diego; Li, Dean; … - 2024
By regulating how firms collect, store, and use data, privacy laws may change the role of data in production and alter firm demand for information technology inputs. We study how firms respond to privacy laws in the context of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by using seven...
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Natural or unnatural monopolies in UK telecommunications?
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284108
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Dispersion over the business cycle: Passthrough, productivity, and demand?
Carlsson, Mikael; Clymo, Alex; Joslin, Knut-Eric - 2023
We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks over the business cycle using Swedish … than productivity dispersion in recessions. Productivity shocks pass through incompletely to prices and have limited effect … and see" channel. Productivity dispersion does not generate "wait and see" effects, but affects output negatively by …
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Shareholding Network in the Euro Area Banking Market
Pecora, Nicolò; Spelta, Alessandro - 2014
Analyzing the topological properties of the network of shareholding relationships among the Euro Area banks we evaluate the relevance of a bank in the ?nancial system respect to ownership and control of other banks. We ?nd that the degree distribution of the European banking network displays...
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Remote work admist the Covid-19 outbreak: Insights from an ensemble community-based keyword network analysis
Drago, Carlo; Errichiello, Luisa - 2024
COVID-19's rapid shift to remote working has sparked interest in synthetizing the growing body of research in order to gain a comprehensive understanding into the scholarship structure of the field. This study explores the issue of pandemic-induced remote working from a multidisciplinary...
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Working conditions in Europe: The role of global value chains and advanced digital production-driven technological specialisation
Nikulin, Dagmara; Parteka, Aleksandra; … - 2022
This paper's analysis of working conditions in Europe compares several aspects of job quality and wages, rather than relying on earnings as a sole indicator of workers' well-being.We use a micro-level database of workers from 22 European countries to assess how global value chains (GVCs) and...
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