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Does Wikipedia matter? : the effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2015

We analyze the impact of information on Wikipedia on tourists' choices for travel destinations. Our results suggest a strong observational correlation between the amount of content on Wikipedia and tourist overnight stays. We propose a check of whether this correlation is causal. For that, we...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2016 - This Version: February 2016

In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put together a monthly country-level data set, which...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2017 - This version: September 2017

Economic restructuring provides an opportunity for socially valuable product and process innovation. However, it's not …

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Does Wikipedia matter? : the effect of Wikipedia on tourist choices

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2017 - This version: September 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...

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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...

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Unemployment and online labor

Borchert, Kathrin; Hirth, Matthias; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2018

Online labor markets experienced a rapid growth in recent years. They allow for long-distance transactions and offer workers access to a potentially 'global' pool of labor demand. As such, they bear the potential to act as a substitute for shrinking local income opportunities. Using detailed...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2015

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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 …

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