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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383690
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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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Productivity, price- and wage-markups : an empirical analysis of the Dutch manufacturing industry
Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph E. J. - 2015
This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage bargaining power. Our study contributes to several strands of literatures. First, we examine a monopolistic framework which accounts for wage bargaining. In addition to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496909
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Growing productivity without growing wages : the micro-level anatomy of the aggregate labor share decline
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017 - First version: November 2015, this version: March 29, 2017
The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646840
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A retrospective study of state aid control in the German broadband market
Duso, Tomaso; Nardotto, Mattia; Seldeslachts, Jo - 2021
We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission (EC). While the EC increasingly recognises the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433753
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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
Falck, Oliver; Carpi, Tito; Heblich, Stephan - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540099
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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content
Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021
The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418534
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The impact of the German "DEAL" on competition in the academic publishing market
Haucap, Justus; Moshgbar, Nima; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021
The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491566
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Microeconometric evidence of financing frictions and innovative activity
Tiwari, Amaresh K.; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2014
Using Dutch data we empirically investigate how financing and innovation vary across firm characteristics. We find that … when firms face financial constraints, debt financing and innovation choices are not independent of firm characteristics …
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