productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making … interest rates per se. This paper uses a large micro level data set of the German bank universe to examine how banks behave in … this uncharted territory. The evidence found suggests that bank’s business model, i.e. the share of overnight deposits …

bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel …

taken place since the early 2000s are driven more by profitability considerations and private entrepreneurship than by …

We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …

optimal dynamic control problem is characterized by two stochastic state variables: the equity value, and profitability (ROA …) of the _rm. According to the empirical evidence, we let profitability follow a mean reverting process. The problem is …

correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is … increase in the profitability of the German affiliate. On the outbound side of German FDI, the data provides some evidence that … tax rate changes in the host country lead to a stronger change in after-tax profitability for affiliates that are wholly …