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Will the Global Village Fracture into Tribes : Recommender Systems and Their Effects on Consumers
Hosanagar, Kartik; Fleder, Daniel M.; Lee, Dokyun; … - 2015
Personalization is becoming ubiquitous on the World Wide Web. Such systems use statistical techniques to infer a … emerged as to whether personalization has drawbacks. By making the web hyper-specific to our interests, does it fragment … internet users, reducing shared experiences and narrowing media consumption? We study whether personalization is in fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014046953
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The emergence of the global fintech market : economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016 - This version: August 25, 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available, capital markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011529968
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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation
Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002
The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409394
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Population, population density, and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449334
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The new economy and the international regulatory framework
Piazolo, Daniel - 2001
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474230
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Advancing a global transition to clean energy : the role of international cooperation
Quitzow, Rainer; Thielges, Sonja; Goldthau, Andreas; … - 2019
International cooperation in support of a global energy transition is on the rise. Initiatives and venues for multilateral cooperation are complemented by growing bilateral engagement to foster international lesson-drawing and exchange. Official development assistance (ODA) in the energy sector...
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Heterogeneity of technology-specific R&D investments : evidence from top R&D investors worldwide
Gkotsis, Petros; Vezzani, Antonio - 2018
In this work, we develop and apply a methodology to estimate technology-specific R&D investments at the firm level and then use these to test some arguments that have become central in the innovation literature. In particular, we first combine R&D investments with patent data of the world top...
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Premature deindustrialization through the lens of occupations : which jobs, why, and where?
Kunst, David - 2019 - Revision: August 2, 2019
A recent literature do cuments that manufacturing employment growth in developing countries has been sluggish over the past decades, and that deindustrialization has often set in at historically low levels of income. However, there is little evidence on which kind of jobs are disappearing...
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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011583471
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The emergence of the global fintech market : economic and technological determinants
Haddad, Christian; Hornuf, Lars - 2016 - This version: August 25, 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available and people have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585592