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Digital addiction
Allcott, Hunt; Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Song, Lena - 2021
Many have argued that digital technologies such as smartphones and social media are addictive. We develop an economic model of digital addiction and estimate it using a randomized experiment. Temporary incentives to reduce social media use have persistent effects, suggesting social media are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588341
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Publish and perish : creative destruction and macroeconomic theory
Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995427
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Learning to play approximate Nash equilibria in games with many players
Cartwright, Edward - 2004
an imitation dynamic and provide conditions under which play evolves to an imitation equilibrium; convergence is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603099
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Energy efficiency in transition economies : is there convergence towards the EU average?
Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Štreimikienė, Dalia - 2004
convergence, and a carefully estimated econometric model of lagged adjustment confirms this. On average, a 1% decrease in the per … transition country by 0.7%. There are differences in the rate of convergence across countries, and these depend on two parameters … fastest convergence rates given these parameters are the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey. The forecast values for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603228
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The ICT revolution : opportunities and risks for the Mezzogiorno
Bellini, Elena; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Pinelli, Dino - 2003
The question of the spatial impacts of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the advent of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592746
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The evolution of regional unemployment in the EU : an analysis via the Gompertz diffusion process
Iacus, Stefano Maria; Porro, Giuseppe - 2012
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Remoteness and unbalanced growth : understanding divergence across Indian districts
Das, Samarjit; Ghate, Chetan; Robertson, Peter E. - 2013
The existing literature on Indian growth finds no evidence of convergence across states. This represents a puzzle given … income and socio-economic data to explore the hypotheses of conditional convergence, using distance as an indicator of … internal geographical trade and migration costs. We find evidence of conditional convergence for Indian districts but at a rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208649
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Anonymous social influence
Förster, Manuel; Grabisch, Michel; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - 2013
and sufficient condition for convergence to consensus and characterize outcomes where the society ends up polarized. Our … some extent. We provide an analysis of the speed of convergence and the possible outcomes of the process. Furthermore, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756274
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Decentralization, social capital and regional convergence
Mauro, Luciano; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2013
By studying the interaction between social capital and decentralization, we show that political decentralization can be a source of divergence across heterogeneous regions. In particular, we claim that since the local endowments of social capital display their effect on the economy mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757366
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European monetary policy in the heterogeneous currency area and the open question of convergence
Afflatet, Nicolas - 2014 - Preprint
member countries. On the one hand, (partially small) hints for convergence can be found for several countries. On the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358677