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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment
Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024
this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …
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The dynamics of automation adoption : firm-level heterogeneity and aggregate employment effects
Bisio, Laura; Cuzzola, Angelo; Grazzi, Marco; … - 2023
We investigate the impact of investment in automation-related goods on adopting and non-adopting firms in the Italian … of Italian importing firms and estimate the effects on adopters' outcomes within a difference-indifferences design … exploiting import lumpiness in product categories linked to automation and AI technologies. We find a positive average adoption …
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The impact of ICT and robots on labour market outcomes of demographic groups in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022
We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470097
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Demographic change and bank profitability : empirical evidence from German savings banks
Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - 2010
Most European economies will experience significant demographic changes in the decades ahead. Due to low birth rates, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking industry. A unique data set, which contains detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925219
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Dynamic entry and exit linkages in the Brazilian manufacturing industry : an econometric investigation
Resende, Marcelo; Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Zeidan, … - 2013
The paper investigates dynamic linkages between entry and exit rates in Brazilian manufacturing in the context of 231 (4-digits) industries during the 1996-2005 period. The empirical analysis focuses on the estimation of a dynamic panel data for entry and exit rates and controls for the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009734846
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Media slant against foreign owners : downsizing
Friebel, Guido; Heinz, Matthias - 2012
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes in Germany receives almost twice as much attention than a domestic firm. This quantitative slant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621597
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Do mergers among multimarket firms create value?
Linde, Sebastian; Siebert, Ralph - 2016
information on mergers and firm-level multimarket production and innovation within the semiconductor industry. Using the pairwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011549386
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A treatment effect method for merger analysis with an application to parking prices in Paris
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent - 2010
Most retrospective merger studies resort to the treatment effect approach, comparing the price dynamics in a treatment group and in a control group. We propose a systematic method to construct the groups, which applies to any industry with spatial competition. The method is consistent with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757537
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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly … entrepreneurs and according to specific sector conditions should not be treated as equivalent to innovation networks for which our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403326
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Reallocation, firm turnover, and efficiency : selection on productivity or profitability?
Foster, Lucia (contributor);  … - 2005
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the fact that producer-level prices are typically unobserved;...
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