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Externalities in knowledge production: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael; … - 2019
Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985216
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Economic downturn and volunteering: Do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?
Kummer, Michael; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2017
Economic restructuring provides an opportunity for socially valuable product and process innovation. However, it's not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778711
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Does Wikipedia matter? The effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices
Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael; … - 2017
We document a causal influence of online user-generated information on realworld economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional information on Wikipedia about cities affects tourists' choices of overnight visits. Our treatment of adding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778712
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"Brain gain" on Wikipedia: Immigrants return knowledge home
Slivko, Olga - 2018
Economic literature acknowledges the impact of immigration on cross-border patenting and scientific publications. However, the role of immigration ows in the dissemination of knowledge in a broader sense is yet to be assessed. In this paper, I estimate the effect of immigration on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793092
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Innovation strategies of German firms: The effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957641
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Innovation strategies of German firms: The effect of competition and intellectual property protection
Slivko, Olga - 2012
affect firms' innovation strategy choices, concretely, whether to abstain from innovation, to introduce products that are … known in the market but new to the firm (imitation) or to introduce market novelties (innovation). Using a sample of 1253 … effectiveness is low or medium, both innovation and imitation are enhanced, whereas if it is high, only innovation is enhanced. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311049