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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Dec 2021

Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media

Kohei KAWAGUCHI, Toshifumi KURODA, Susumu SATO
In the mobile app market, multiple monetizing policies such as paid and free ad-sponsored models co-exist. This paper proposes a novel model of ad-sponsored media with endogenous business model choice, that is applicable to the mobile app industry. The model defines an equilibrium over consumers’ ...
Keywords: Merger simulation, market definition, SSNIP, antitrust policy, ad-sponsored media, platform transaction fee, app economy, distributed word representation.
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Oct 2021

Digitization and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy

Susan ATHEY
Keywords: AI, machine learning, autonomy, service delivery
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Nov 2021

Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China

Martin BERAJA, David Y. YANG, Noam YUCHTMAN
Developing AI technology requires data. In many domains, government data far exceeds in magnitude and scope data collected by the private sector, and AI firms often gain access to such data when providing services to the state. We argue that such access can stimulate commercial AI innovation in part...
Keywords: AI, facial recognition, government data, innnovation, policies
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Feb 2022

Ownership Networks and Firm Growth: What Do Forty Million Companies Tell Us About the Chinese Economy?

Junhui CAI, Xian GU, Jun QIAN, Linda ZHAO, Wu ZHU, Franklin ALLEN
The finance–growth nexus has been a central question in understanding the unprecedented success of the Chinese economy. Using unique data on all the registered firms in China, we build extensive firm-to-firm equity ownership networks. Entering a network and increasing network centrality leads to h...
Keywords: Ownership network, Equity capital, firm growth, Bank Credit
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Jan 2022

Investing with the Government: A Field Experiment in China

Emanuele COLONNELLI, Bo LI
This paper studies the demand for government participation in financial markets. Focusing on the venture capital and private equity industry in China, the authors design a non-deceptive field experiment in collaboration with the leading industry organization, through which the authors conduct 1,00...
Keywords: Financial markets, Venture Capital, private equity, political inteference
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