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Overconfidence and technology adoption in health care
Comin, Diego; Skinner, Jonathan; Staiger, Douglas - 2022
Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...
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Parting with "blue monday": Preferences in home production and consumer responses to innovations
Witt, Ulrich; Woersdorfer, Julia Sophie - 2011
How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
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Medizintechnik: eine innovative Branche in regulierten Märkten
Hornschild, Kurt; Wilkens, Markus - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 48, pp. 749-756
Produkte der Medizintechnik dargestellt. Für die stark innovationsgetriebene und sehr heterogene Branche lassen sich … grundlegende technologische Entwicklungstrends erkennen, aus denen Schlüsseltechnologien der Medizintechnik abgeleitet werden … können. Technologieorientierte Unternehmen der Medizintechnik agieren dabei in regulierten nationalen Gesundheitsmärkten …
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Portfolio strategies of life science venture capital firms in the USA and Europe
Patzelt, Holger; zu Knyphausen-Aufseß, Dodo; Habib, Yasmin - 2005
the USA and Europe, we investigate portfolio strategies of US-American and European VC firms active in this sector. We … into the USA in order to access the US VC market. Therapeutics and diagnostics companies in the USA, on the other hand, may …
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Diffusion processes on complex networks
Švarcová, Natálie; Švarc, Petr - 2009
In this paper we apply agent-based methodology on an issue that is fundamental for economic prosperity and growth: the diffusion of innovations. The diffusion of innovations is one of the topics where agent-based simulation is an extremely fruitful method allowing not only the observation of...
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Artificial Intelligence and the clustering of human capital: The risks for Europe
Brey, Björn; Van der Marel, Erik - 2023
Europe trails the global frontier of productivity growth and the region's trend is sluggish. Much prospective economic growth for Europe is likely to come from AI and its adoption by European firms which is projected to shoot up the productivity trend. For such AI-generated growth to work, high...
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Will imitators follow pioneer consumers in the adoption of solar thermal systems? Empirical evidence for North-West Germany
Wörsdorfer, Julia Sophie; Kaus, Wolfhard - 2010
In Germany, solar thermal systems (STS) have only diffused to a minor extent yet. This paper analyzes, which demand side factors are decisive for the further proliferation of this environmentally benign technology. Making use of a consumer survey in North-West Germany in 2007, we examine the...
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Der Ruf der Sirenen - Zur Dynamik politischen Benchmarkings: Eine Analyse anhand der US-Sozialreformen
Straßheim, Holger - 2001
erhält in den USA der jüngste sozialpolitische Paradigmenwandel (Welfare-to-Work) seine Dynamik in Verbindung mit einem …
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing
Snyder, Lori; Miller, Nolan; Stavins, Robert - 2003
We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...
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Explaining shifts in the unemployment rate with productivity slowdowns and accelerations: a co-breaking approach
Schreiber, Sven - 2009
We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U.S. data in a framework of infrequent mean shifts. Tests find (endogenously dated) shifts around 1974, 1986, and 1996, system techniques indicate that the shifts are common...
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