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This paper examines how strategic alliances to create and use standards affect economic growth and development. The explanation of the link from standards to economic growth and development is through the effects of standards on the incentives to perform industrial research and development...
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technical specifications and requirements. This will lead to the diffusion of positive externalities and should allow for a …
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model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …
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The demographic transition -the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime- is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...
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electronic finance networks, concurrently there are some disadvantages of their diffusion. The purpose of the paper is to present …
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The emergence of digital technologies has significantly reduced the economic costs of data—search, storage, computation, transmission—and enabled new economic activities. Over the years, firms able to create a platform-based ecosystem have become a force of “creative destruction.”...
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We study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. Specifically …, we address two questions: First, can we draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion by studying …
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This paper documents the downward trend in the labor share of global income since the early 1990s, as well as its heterogeneous evolution across countries, industries and worker skill groups, using a newly assembled dataset, and analyzes the drivers behind it. Technological progress, along with...
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Using quarterly data of 58 countries, this paper provides empirical evidence that mobile phone diffusion from 2007 to …). In addition, we test if the impact on mobile phone diffusion differs whether technologies are local or global standards … (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology prevent the diffusion of third generation (3G) mobile phones. We show …
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