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Investors increasingly can obtain assistance from "robo-advisors," artificial intelligence - enabled digitalized service agents imbued with anthropomorphic design elements that can communicate using natural language. The present article considers the impact of anthropomorphized robo-advisors on...
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The internet revolution is said to foster integration of the market for financial services, since consumers are able to shop around at all companies worldwide and firms can easily offer their services on the internet at a minimum of distribution cost. However, the European market for online...
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Computing power continues to grow at an enormous rate. Simultaneously, more and better data is increasingly available and Machine Learning methods have seen significant breakthroughs in the recent past. All this pushes further the boundary of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex...
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Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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We study the effect of digital tax measures on firm value. By employing an event study methodology, we analyze investor reaction to the European Commission's proposals on the taxation of digital corporations. Examining the stock returns of potentially affected corporations surrounding the draft...
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Die moderne Wissenschaft konstituierte sich im 19. Jahrhundert als eine spezifische Form sozialer Praxis - ausgeübt von zertifizierten Experten, die ihre Forschungsarbeit in ausgewiesenen institutionellen (Labor-) Settings betreiben, in fachspezifischen Medien miteinander kommunizieren und die...
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In der Corona-Pandemie erfahren soziale Dienstleistungsberufe als "systemrelevante Berufe" eine hohe Aufmerksamkeit und öffentliche Wertschätzung. Vielfach wurde in der Vergangenheit darauf hingewiesen, dass soziale Arbeit in Deutschland strukturell unterbewertet ist. Auch wenn die akute...
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companies (Deutsche Bank and RWE) with locale providers such as savings banks and municipal utilities (Stadtwerke) motivate this …
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Digitale Technologien begünstigen den Einsatz einer dynamischen Preisgestaltung, also von Preisen, die für ein prinzipiell gleiches Produkt unangekündigt variieren. Dabei werden in der öffentlichen Diskussion unterschiedliche Ausgestaltungsformen dynamischer Preise oftmals vermischt, was...
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