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A global decline in research productivity? Evidence from China and Germany

Böing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

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Artificial intelligence and firm-level productivity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P.; Rammer, Christian - 2022

new ways of production that may increase productivity. So far, however, only very few studies investigated likely … productivity effects of AI at the firm-level; presumably because of lacking data. We exploit unique survey data on firms' adoption … of AI technology and estimate its productivity effects with a sample of German firms. We employ both a cross …

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Procuring survival

Cappelletti, Matilde; Giuffrida, Leonardo M. - 2021

Public spending (i.e., 'G') enables governments to fulfill their fiscal policies. This paper takes a micro perspective and quantifies the impact of procurement spending - a specific component of G - on firm survival. We find that firms that receive public contracts survive longer, ceteris...

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Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production: Evidence from Europe

Chlond, Bettina; Germeshausen, Robert - 2023

facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …

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The value of a loss: The impact of restricting tax loss transfers

Bührle, Anna Theresa; Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Stage, Barbara - 2023

We study the economic consequences of anti-loss trafficking rules, which disallow the use of loss carry-forwards as tax shield after a substantial ownership change. Using staggered changes to these rules, we find that limiting the transfer of tax losses reduces the number of M&As with...

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Committing to grow: Privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023

: distorted employment decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and …% points higher annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment … after 10 years. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in …

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Big data and start-up performance

Rodepeter, Elisa; Gschnaidtner, Christoph; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2023

Big Data (BD) is becoming widely available and manageable. This raises the question of whether Big Data Analytics (BDA) in companies leads to better decision-making andhence performance. Based on a large, representative set of start-ups in Germany, we study the adoption of BDA among small and...

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … performance distributions are more dispersed. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - 2014

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? Heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement

Fries, Jan - 2014

a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is … that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the …

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