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Anelli, Massimo; Colantone, Italo; Stanig, Piero - 2019

ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure exposure to automation both at the regional level, based on the ex …

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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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Automation and employment over the technology life cycle : evidence from European regions

Jaccoud, Florencia; Petit, Fabien; Ciarli, Tommaso; … - 2024

This paper examines the labor market implications of investment in automation over the life cycle of ICT and robot … these automation technologies and identify the phases of acceleration and deceleration in investment. We then examine how … exposure to these automation technologies affects employment and wages across these different phases of their life cycle. We …

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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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Market liberalization in the European natural gas market : the importance of capacity constraints and efficiency differences

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van; … - 2009

In the European Union, energy markets are increasingly being liberalized. A case in point is the European natural gas industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen...

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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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A leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets

Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2016

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two-sided markets. We analyze incentives for a monopolist to tie its monopolized product with another product in a two-sided market. Tying provides a mechanism to circumvent the...

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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...

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Concentration and competition : evidence from Europe and implications for policy

Koltay, Gábor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022

The paper provides new evidence on proxy indicators of market power for major European countries. The data shows moderately increasing average industry concentration over the last two decades, a considerably increasing proportion of high concentration industries, and an overall tendency towards...

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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...

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