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Helping Small Businesses become more Data-Driven : A Field Experiment on eBay
Bar-Gill, Sagit; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Hak, Nir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs … increases, without increases in average prices. Our results suggest that analytics and DDD help SMEs establish a competitive … supporting the adoption of analytics tools by SMEs. Furthermore, policies supporting small businesses' transition to the data era …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014248007
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Industrial Organization and the New Industrial Policy
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The purpose of this paper is to try to shed some new light on the current industrial policy crisis. This paper proposes that the industrial policy debate is shaped by knowledge about the functioning of the underlying industrial structure, which in turn is the Gegenstand of scholars in the field...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136586
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210090
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Procuring Innovation
Cabral, Luís M B; Cozzi, Guido; Denicolò, Vincenzo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
To stay on top of global competition, firms and governments often need to acquire innovative goods and services, including ideas and research, from their strategic suppliers. A careful design of procurement policy is crucial to make potential suppliers generate and sell the most suitable...
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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies
Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
achievements are wasted as children fail to build upon their parents’ achievements. Policies affecting the education system and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124062
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Motivation and Sorting in Open Source Software Innovation
Belenzon, Sharon; Schankerman, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper studies the role of intrinsic motivation, reputation and reciprocity in driving open source software innovation. We exploit the observed pattern of contributions - the 'revealed preference' of developers - to infer the underlying incentives. Using detailed information on code...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789146
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Intangible Marketing Capital
Bronnenberg, Bart J.; Dubé, Jean-Pierre H.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the private value of brands to firms and aggregate intangible brand capital stocks created by these investments. These investments include the creation and maintenance of a brand name...
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Complementary Patents and Market Structure
Schmidt, Klaus M. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Many high technology goods are based on standards that require access to several patents that are owned by different IP holders. We investigate the royalties chosen by IP holders under different market structures. Vertical integration of an IP holder and a downstream producer solves the double...
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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars; Svensson, Roger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is more likely to be sold (or licensed) to an incumbent due to strategic product market effects on the sales price. Preemptive acquisitions by incumbents are shown to stimulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008865973
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Leveraging Monopoly Power by Degrading Interoperability: Theory and evidence from computer markets
Genakos, Christos D.; Kühn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
When will a monopolist have incentives to foreclose a complementary market by degrading compatibility/interoperability of his products with those of rivals? We develop a framework where leveraging extracts more rents from the monopoly market by 'restoring' second degree price discrimination. In...
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