The ongoing digital transformation has raised hopes for ICT-based climate protection within manufacturing industries … drivers of the relationship between ICT and energy use in manufacturing. We apply flexible tree-based machine learning to a …

Additive Manufacturing (AM) enables mass customization and has thereby the potential to revolutionize traditional … manufacturing. In this paper, we examine how the adoption of AM affects competition and welfare in traditionally standardized … excessively large. Based on these findings, we discuss policy implications for the manufacturing industry. We recommend …

The manufacturing sector accounts for a substantial share of German GDP, employment and carbon emissions. Therefore …, the manufacturing sector's energy use and carbon emissions are of crucial importance for reaching Germany's climate goals …. In this paper, we analyse energy use patterns in German manufacturing between 2003 and 2014, using rich administrative …

emissions from German manufacturing have actually increased between 2005 and 2017. In this paper, we provide evidence of how the … policy mix overall has affected the German manufacturing sector in its entirety. Using detailed administrative micro-data at … carbon emissions is due to an increase in manufacturing’s production scale. Relative to the strong output growth, our …

parameter estimates are estimated from the German Manufacturing Census. The quantitative model allows us to recover a measure of …