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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

From Green Users to Green Voters

By: Diego Comin and Johannes Rode
We estimate the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party. The logistic diffusion of PV systems offers a new identification strategy. We take first differences and instrument adoption rates (i.e.... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Political Elections; Technology Adoption; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Germany
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  • May 2005 (Revised April 2006)
  • Background Note

Note on Innovation Diffusion: Rogers' Five Factors

By: John T. Gourville
Reviews Everett Rogers' Five Factors of product adoption. These factors help explain why some products diffuse rapidly and some slowly or not at all. View Details
Keywords: Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention
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  • 12 Dec 2013
  • HBS Seminar

William Kerr, Harvard Business School

  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Why Do Firms Automate Production, and How Do They Adjust? Evidence from the Bell Telephone System over the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and James J. Feigenbaum
Over the course of the 20th century, AT&T's operating companies replaced telephone operators with mechanical switching and dial telephones. Yet it took AT&T 30 years from the invention of the technology to begin using it, and another 60 years to finish installing it... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Labor; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks; History; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • Research Summary

Output and asset price fluctuations

What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details

  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen

    Tomomichi Amano

    Tomomichi Amano is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. He teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

    Professor Amano draws on economic theories to understand novel mechanisms by which new... View Details
    • October 2024
    • Article

    Global Mobile Inventors

    By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ernest Miguelez and Sara Signorelli
    The number of Global Mobile Inventors (GMIs), inventors moving across borders during their career, has increased more than tenfold over the past two decades, and the corridors of mobility have shifted towards a growing presence of emerging markets. We document that... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Immigration; Patents; Knowledge; Technological Innovation
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    • 2012
    • Book

    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

    By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

    By: Diego A. Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha and Luis Serven
    We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous and slow diffusion of technologies from the developed to the developing country, and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Mathematical Methods; Mexico; United States
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      The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

      While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

      By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
      We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      • 08 Dec 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Industry R&D Survey: Patent Database Link Project

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Shihe Fu; Technology
      • 2011
      • Chapter

      An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

      By: Diego A. Comin
      Why was the 1990s a lost decade for Japan? How is it possible that the Japanese economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Japan
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      • Research Summary

      Firm and aggregate volatility

      US publicly traded companies have become more volatile over the postwar period. This trend has been the result of increased competition in product markets through deregulation, through more intensive innovation activity, and through easier access to capital markets.... View Details

      • Research Summary

      Knowledge flows and capability acquisition

      By: Willy C. Shih
      Technological advancements are a major source of improvement in competiveness, and a firm’s incentives to invest are diminished when the knowledge generated is involuntarily dispersed to competitors.  While intellectual property rights can moderate this flow to the... View Details
      Keywords: Knowledge Aspects Of Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Spillovers; Knowledge Acquisition; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; China
      • May 2005
      • Exercise

      Forecasting the Adoption of E-books

      By: Elie Ofek
      Gives students an opportunity to understand the challenges inherent in forecasting the diffusions of innovations. Provides data for forecasting the adoption of electronic books. Students are encouraged to use the Bass Model framework, while being cognizant of its... View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Framework; Books; Analytics and Data Science; Product Launch; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption
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      • 17 May 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data

      Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Faisal Z. Ahmed
      • Teaching Interest

      Development Economics (PhD)

      By: Shawn A. Cole

      This course, intended for second-year PhD students in economics and related fields, is taught by Michael Kremer, Phillippe Aghion, and Shawn Cole.

      Part I (Kremer) of the course will cover macro-economic topics including aggregate and non-aggregate growth... View Details

      • 05 Dec 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: December 5, 2006

      success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful implementation depends on a number of... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne