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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Time and the Value of Data
By: Ehsan Valavi, Joel Hestness, Newsha Ardalani and Marco Iansiti
This paper investigates the effectiveness of time-dependent data in improving the quality of AI-based products and services. Time-dependency means that data loses its relevance to problems over time. This loss causes deterioration in the algorithm's performance and,...  View Details
Keywords: Economics Of Ai; Machine Learning; Non-stationarity; Perishability; Value Depreciation
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms
By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on...  View Details
Keywords: Covid-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries And Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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  • July 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...  View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • August 2018
  • Article

Growth Through Heterogeneous Innovations
By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new product lines. External and internal innovations generate...  View Details
Keywords: Endogenous Growth; Innovation; Citations; Scientists; Entrepreneurs; External; Internal; Patents; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Research And Development; Science
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size...  View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; size; Emerging Markets; Supply And Industry; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • July 2012
  • Case

Performance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc.
By: John Bingham and Michael Beer
Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that manufactures health and personal care products, has experienced six straight quarters of strong revenue growth. James Hoffman, the new Senior Vice President of Human Resources, fears that the chain of success is...  View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Motivation And Incentives; Compensation And Benefits; Talent And Talent Management; Health Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany
By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the...  View Details
Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government And Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome Or Result; Research And Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations
By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines...  View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices And Conditions; Economic Growth; Investment; Innovation And Invention; Patents; size; Research And Development; United States
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Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all...  View Details
Keywords: Competition; distribution; Internet; Technology Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, And Techniques; Strategy; Profit; Price; Performance Efficiency
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and developing countries, which enables us to present both cross-country and...  View Details
Keywords: Country; Capital; Integration; Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries And Economies
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality
By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III

This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of the industrial organization of this industry, namely those available...  View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Mergers And Acquisitions; Revenue; Data And Data Sets; Surveys; Marketing; Measurement And Metrics; Rank And Position; Competition; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; United States
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences
By: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton and Fabio Kanczuk
We investigate, using plant-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a significant determinant of cross-country differences in income per worker. For this purpose, we use a...  View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, And Plants; Developing Countries And Economies; Wages; Resource Allocation; Mathematical Methods
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Retail Market Structure and Dynamics: A Three Country Comparison of Japan, the U.K. and the U.S.
By: Jonathan Haskel, Ron S. Jarmin, Kazuyuki Motohashi and Raffaella Sadun
This paper compares structure and dynamics of the Retail Trade Sectors in Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. This is done using confidential establishment and firm level data for each country. By using micro data we are able to perform much more detailed comparisons than...  View Details
Keywords: Industry Structures; Market Entry And Exit; Jobs And Positions; size; Performance Productivity; Japan; United Kingdom; United States
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  • January 2006 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Andres Hervas and Jordan Mitchell
We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We present microfoundations for a stylized model of p2p file sharing where all...  View Details
Keywords: Price; Profit; distribution; Competition; Internet; Technology Networks
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Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries
By: Michael L. Tushman
I am exploring how open innovation...  View Details
  • Research Summary

Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India
By: Laura Alfaro
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size...  View Details
  • Research Summary

International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship (joint with Andrew Charlton)
By: Laura Alfaro
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Researchers have stressed the role of new firm activity and economic dynamism on growth. Yet, the empirical effects of international capital...  View Details

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