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We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations. Patenting growth is...
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This paper examines the presence of knowledge spillovers that affect the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It examines whether plants that adopt advanced technologies are more likely to do so when there are other nearby plants that do so within a model of...
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, processed, and shared to enable their operations. The internet of things facilitates the storage and transmission of data and …
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provides evidence that internet access and speed, online security, and financial inclusiveness matter in facilitating internet …
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This study investigates the effect of broadband internet availability on German establishments’ employment growth. The … database used is a random sample of business establishments, augmented by the local availability of broadband. The observation … period is 2005–2010, when broadband was introduced in rural regions of Western Germany and in large parts of Eastern Germany …
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This study examined the technical efficiency (TE) of two different remote internet access methods, wireless and wired …
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We extend the conventional Solow growth accounting model to allow innovation to affect consumer welfare directly. Our model is based on Lancaster’s New Approach to Consumer Theory, in which there is a separate “consumption technology� that transforms the produced goods,...
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This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty in a multi-sector housing model with financial frictions. We include time varying uncertainty (i.e. risk shocks) in the technology shocks that affect housing production. The analysis demonstrates that risk shocks to the housing production sector are a...
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