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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We …. Our estimates suggest that the second effect dominates. Technology dampens the impact of spatial frictions by up to 80 … percent and increases, in net terms, the share of offshore trading by 21 percentage points. Technology also has economically …
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Cables, sharks and servers : technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431768
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Cables, sharks and servers : technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437472
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Cables, sharks and servers : technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448934
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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We …. Our estimates suggest that the second effect dominates. Technology dampens the impact of spatial frictions by up to 80 … percent and increases, in net terms, the share of offshore trading by 21 percentage points. Technology also has economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001201
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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We …. Our estimates suggest that the second effect dominates. Technology dampens the impact of spatial frictions by up to 80 … percent and increases, in net terms, the share of offshore trading by 21 percentage points. Technology also has economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456788
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Technology and the geography of the foreign exchange market
Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499887
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The Best Things in Life are (Nearly) Free : Technology, Knowledge and Global Health
Casabonne, Ursula; Kenny, Charles - 2014
The health of the world’s population - including those in the poorest countries - has improved more in the past 100 years than ever before. The improvement is largely a result of the development and spread of cheap, effective technologies (such as vaccines). Other factors, such as national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179984
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Blockchain Technology : What is it Good for?
Ammous, Saifedean - 2016
This paper explains the functioning of “blockchain technology” and critically assesses its potential role in improving … services in banking, contracts, and database systems. Comparing blockchain to the current best practice technology in these … fields reveals several barriers to successful commercial implementation: Blockchain technology involves costly redundancies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984083
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Dismissal laws, innovation, and economic growth
Subramanian, Krishnamurthy V. - 2018
I theoretically and empirically show that dismissal laws - laws that impose hurdles on firing of employees - spur innovation and thereby economic growth. Theoretically, dismissal laws make it costly for firms to arbitrarily discharge employees. This enables firms to commit to not punish...
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