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Third-party certification in food market chains : are you being served?

Almeida, Felipe; Pessali, Huáscar Fialho; Paula, … - In: Journal of economic issues : jei 44 (2010) 2, pp. 479-485

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Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

Public support of research typically relies on the notion that universities are engines of economic development, and that university research is a primary driver of high wage localized economic activity. Yet the evidence supporting that notion is based on aggregate descriptive data, rather than...

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Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Flows and Innovation in US Metropolitan Areas

Silberman, Jonathan; Mukherji, Nivedita - 2013

High growth and progressive regions possess a culture that promotes innovation. Innovation depends on a region’s ability to use its own existing knowledge and knowledge generated elsewhere. This paper demonstrates the importance of the ability to absorb external knowledge in explaining...

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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data

Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017

Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...

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Positively aware? : conflicting expert reviews and demand for medical treatment

Balat, Jorge F.; Papageorge, Nicholas W.; Qayyum, Shaiza - 2017

We study the impact of expert reviews on the demand for HIV treatments. A novel feature of our study is that we observe two reviews for each HIV drug and focus attention on consumer responses when experts disagree. Reviews are provided by both a doctor and an activist in the HIV lifestyle...

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Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? : evidence from the appliance market

Houde, Sébastien; Myers, Erica - 2019

We estimate whether consumers respond to local energy costs when purchasing appliances. Using a dataset from an appliance retailer, we compare demand responsiveness to a measure of energy costs that varies with local energy prices versus purchase prices. We strongly reject that consumers are...

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Safety Reviews on Airbnb : An Information Tale

Culotta, Aron; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Sun, Yidan; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Consumer reviews, especially those expressing concerns of product quality, are crucial for the credibility of online platforms. However, reviews that criticize a product or service may also dissuade buyers from using the platform, creating an incentive to blur the visibility of critical reviews....

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The management of diversity in US and German higher education

Langholz, Marlene - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 25 (2014) 3, pp. 207-226

The research on diversity and diversity management in German organisations has significantly gained relevance over the … last years. The reasons for this are socio-political and economic changes that make diversity a highly relevant topic. In … introducing policies targeting a diverse student body. Taking a comparative approach, this paper analyses the origin of diversity …

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The breakup of the Bell System and its impact on US innovation

Watzinger, Martin; Schnitzer, Monika - 2022

We analyze the effects of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System on the rate, diversity, and direction of US innovation … diversity of telecommunications innovation increased. Total patenting by US inventors related to telecommunications increased by …

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The Demise of Distance? The Declining Role of Physical Distance In Knowledge Transmission

Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Siripong, Nalyn; Brown, Amy - 2002

The economics literature clearly shows that the transmission of knowledge diminishes with physical distance, a factor contributing to industrial clustering. This paper investigates how those distances have stretched over time. We measure the physical distance between collaborating inventors, as...

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