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We examine the repercussions of protectionist policies implemented in the United States since 2018 on the composition of workforce and career choices within the semiconductor industry. We find that the shift towards protectionism, aimed at reviving domestic manufacturing and employment,...
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We examined ten years (1st January 2008 until 31st December 2017) of the regular non-provisional utility applications data (~3.63 million applications) from three different United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) sources - Patent Examination Data System (PEDS), Patents-view database...
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This paper explores mechanisms through which a party's choice of governance mode for a focal transaction is constrained by the governance choices it made for other, prior transactions. We argue that this condition of "governance inseparability" plays an important role in determining the...
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enable investment in innovation by business firms. This gaping lacuna is particularly problematic because many of the largest … the productive capabilities of their workforces for the sake of innovation. Based on analyzes of the “financialization” of … and enable corporate investment in innovation, the Biden administration’s program for attaining stable and equitable …
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Compatibility is recognized to be a socially desirable outcome but the welfare implications from a uniform standard are still ambiguous. This paper studies the effect of unifying two incompatible standards for wireless networks in the U.S. wireless telecommunications market from 2015 to 2018. I...
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Are the agglomeration economies of technology hubs augmented by a localized market for start-ups – acquisitions, and IPOs? How does this affect the ability of places outside of those hubs to foster digital startups as a tool of local economic development? We study this with a particular focus...
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This paper investigates the welfare implications of the rapid innovation in Central Processing Units, and, specifically …
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This study presents an empirical test of the relationship between market concentration and new product introductions. The analysis uses an annual panel data set of the US processed food industry that spans across the period 1983 to 2004. The estimations depict that market concentration increases...
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Agricultural research drives increases in agricultural productivity, and the number of private agricultural input firms has been declining. The empirical relationship between the number of firms doing applied biotechnology crop research and the amount of research output they produce is...
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