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  1. Productivity spillovers among knowledge workers in agglomerations
    evidence from GitHub
    Author: El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Fackler, Thomas
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [München]

    Software engineering is a field with strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing only a... more

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    Software engineering is a field with strong geographic concentration, with Silicon Valley as the epitome of a tech cluster. Yet, most studies on the productivity effects of agglomerations measure innovation with patent data, thus capturing only a fraction of the industry's activity. With data from the open source platform GitHub, our study contributes an alternative proxy for productivity, complementing the literature by covering a broad range of software engineering. With user activity data covering the years 2015 to 2021, we relate cluster size to an individual's productivity. Our findings suggest that physical proximity to a large number of other knowledge workers in the same field leads to spillovers, increasing productivity considerably. In further analyses, we confirm the causal relationship with an IV approach and study heterogeneities by cluster size, initial productivity and project characteristics.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/282091
    Series: Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; no. 399 (May 26, 2023)
    Subjects: agglomeration effects; knowledge spillovers; open source; online collaboration
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 41 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Career concerns as public good
    the role of signaling for open source software development
    Author: El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190, [München]

    Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the... more

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    Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub, and find evidence in favor of career concerns as a motivating factor to contribute. Our difference-in-differences model leverages time differences in incentives for labor market signaling across users to causally identify OSS activity driven by career concerns. We observe OSS activity of users who move for a job to be elevated by about 16% in the job search period compared to users who relocate for other reasons. This increase is mainly driven by contributions to projects that increase external visibility of existing works, are written in programming languages that are highly valued in the labor market, but have a lower direct use-value for the community. A sizable extensive margin shows signaling incentives motivate first-time OSS contributions. Our findings suggest that signaling incentives on private labor markets have sizable positive externalities through public good creation in open-source communities, but these contributions are targeted less to community needs and more to their signal value.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190 ; no. 453 (November 15, 2023)
    Subjects: software; knowledge work; digital platforms; signaling; open source; job search
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 49 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Defying gravity
    what drives productivity in remote teams?
    Author: Fackler, Thomas; Hofmann, Michael; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  [Collaborative Research Center Transregio 190], [München]

    How can teams organize for productive online collaboration? The coronavirus pandemic has led to a large and persistent shift toward remote work. Using fine-grained data from the world's largest platform for open-source software development, we find... more

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    How can teams organize for productive online collaboration? The coronavirus pandemic has led to a large and persistent shift toward remote work. Using fine-grained data from the world's largest platform for open-source software development, we find that the pandemic reduced the productivity of previously co-located teams substantially, whereas similar teams with remote work experience remained resilient. While access to remote talent and experience are important for overall team success, our results highlight the crucial role of communication for productive online collaboration. We find suggestive evidence that, with their peers shifting to online work, remote workers become better integrated into their teams' communication. We conclude that while teams' performance may suffer from the shift to remote work, setting up systems for effective online communication can help mitigate productivity loss.

     
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    Series: [Discussion paper] / [Rationality & Competition, CRC TRR 190] ; [no. 427 (September 19, 2023)]
    Subjects: gravity model; open source; knowledge workers; knowledge flows; remote work; online labor markets; COVID-19
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 62 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. Share to scare
    technology sharing in the absence of strong intellectual property rights
    Author: Jansen, Jos
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Aarhus BSS, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, [Aarhus]

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    Series: Economics working papers ; 2023, 04
    Subjects: Cournot duopoly; strategic disclosure; indivisibility; innovation; trade secret; open source; skewed distribution
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 49 Seiten), Illustrationen
  5. Gingado: a machine learning library focused on economics and finance
    Author: Araujo, Douglas Kiarelly Godoy de
    Published: September 2023
    Publisher:  Bank for International Settlements, Monetary and Economic Department, [Basel]

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    Series: BIS working papers ; no 1122
    Subjects: machine learning; open source; data access; documentation
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 30 Seiten)