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Are firms withdrawing from basic research? : an analysis of firm-level publication behaviour in Germany

Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel; Blind, Knut; … - 2020

Previous research has expressed concerns about firms engaging less in basic research. We contribute to this debate by studying trends in the scientific publishing activities of firms located in Germany. Our results do not confirm a declining trend in raw numbers with numbers indicating that...

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Externalities in knowledge production : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2019

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...

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The interplay between product innovation, publishing, patenting and developing standards

Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022 - This version: May 2020

. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed practices on firm innovation are well-understood, the existing … sample of innovation-active firms from the German Community Innovation Survey, which includes information on the development … of standards, enhanced with information on firms' engagement in patenting and publishing. We find that 26% of innovation …

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Chat more and contribute better : an empirical study of a knowledge-sharing community

Chen, Xiaomeng; Forman, Christopher; Kummer, Michael E. - 2021

We analyze whether an informal second channel for communication can improve the efficiency of knowledge transfer in an electronic network of practice. We explore this question by analyzing the effect of chat rooms in the well-known Q&A forum Stack Overflow. We identify the causal effect using a...

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Competition and privacy in online markets : evidence from the mobile app industry

Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2019

Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes firms to collect ever more data from their users. We investigate the relationship...

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Unemployment and Online Labor - Evidence from Microtasking

Laitenberger, Ulrich; Viete, Steffen; Slivko, Olga; … - 2022 - This version: April 2022

We analyze the relationship between unemployment and the supply of online labor for microtasking. Using detailed US data from a large microtasking platform between 2011 and2015, we study the participation and the number of hours supplied by workers in the US.We find that more individuals...

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Special issue: Innovation and regulation

Blind, Knut (contributor) - 2007

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The impact of the EU General Data Protection Regulation on innovation in firms

Blind, Knut; Niebel, Crispin Miles; Rammer, Christian - 2022

consensus on whether this new privacy regulation is beneficial or detrimental to innovation. This study provides empirical … evidence on the impact of the GDPR on innovation activities in firms. Exploiting panel data from the German innovation survey …, a difference-in-difference analysis shows that the GDPR stimulated additional innovation activity while shifting the …

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