Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion

By Diego Comin, B. Hobijn, Emilie Rovito. 2006

136 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Oliver Falck
2. Nina Czernich
3. Tobias Kretschmer
4. Ludger Woessmann
5. Regis Barnichon
6. Eric A. Hanushek
7. Thomas Niebel
8. Ioana Marinescu

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Nina Czernich
2. Tobias Kretschmer
3. Ludger Woessmann
4. Regis Barnichon
5. Oliver Falck

Citations in the corpus

• Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth (2011, background): “…form tends to capture the extensive margin of diffusion (the take-up of users) – as measured in our paper – very well for a vast number of technologies, Comin, Hobijn, and Rovito (2006) show that it does not capture the intensive margin of diffusion (reflecting the intensity of use) for many…”
• Building a composite Help-Wanted Index (2010, background): “…not exhibit a constant rate of decline but appears to follow an S-curve, a pattern characteristic of the process of technology diffusion (see e.g. Comin et al., 2006).4 Thus, in the next section, I model the development of online job advertising as the diffusion of a new technology: online job…”
• Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys (2006, unknown): “be more important for the creation of new knowledge than for the adoption and adaptation 2One exception is Comin et al. (2006) that use a cross-country dataset on the adoption of specific technologies.”