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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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Flexible automation : a comparison of Dutch and Swedish firms particularly as to one machine penetrations
Boon, Gerard K. - 1984
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Artificial intelligence and worker stress : evidence from Germany
Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2024
We use individual survey data providing detailed information on stress, technology adoption, and work, worker, and employer characteristics, in combination with recent measures of AI and robot exposure, to investigate how new technologies affect worker stress. We find a persistent negative...
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Merger negotiations and ex-post regret
Gärtner, Dennis (contributor);  … - 2007
-burning in the case of false reports. -- Mergers ; Mechanism ; design ; Asymmetric ; information ; Interdependent ; valuations …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000
Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005
This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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