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This paper addresses the role of product liability for the emergence and development of smart products such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). We analyze how the liability regime affects innovative activities, as well as the timing of market introduction and market penetration of such smart products....
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We study a platformâs incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of holding the platform liable for the presence of such products on innovation and consumer welfare. For a given number of buyers, platform liability increases innovation by reducing the competitive pressure faced...
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Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
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This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 …
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. To investigate the drivers of crypto adoption, we assemble a novel database (made available with this paper) on retail …
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I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all … German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand …
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FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches …,000 companies. In addition to the “hard” business data like turnover and number of employees, the database also includes “soft …
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This article introduces a novel database that measures governments’ compliance with national constitutions. It combines … and the rule of law, political rights, civil rights, and basic human rights. The database covers 175 countries over the …
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, competition does not eliminate but rather exacerbates inefficiencies arising from contracting with focused agents. Common contract …
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make external financing costly, the optimal contract between shareholders and employees involves some degree of risk …
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