emphasis on technology which can be found in the recent literature, our estimation results indicate that numerical superiority …

Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries …

German banks, this paper explores how regionally less diversified banks in Germany adjusted their loan loss provisioning … following the severe summer flood of 2013, which affected widespread regions mostly in Eastern Germany. The analysis uses a … difference-in-differences estimation with banks being allocated to the treatment and control group based on the region of their …

We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find …’ innovation efficiency by mitigating decreasing economies of scale in in-house innovation efforts. As a result, firms become more … likely to outsource innovation efforts as they become more innovative, whereas the prevalence of offshoring depends on its …