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Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Innovation : Evidence From Firm-Level Data

Rammer, Christian; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a set of techniques that enable new ways of innovation and allows firms to offer new features of products and services, to improve production, marketing and administration processes, and to introduce new business models. This paper analyses the extent to...

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Artificial Intelligence and Firm-Level Productivity

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the next general-purpose technology with a rapid, penetrating, and far-reaching use over a broad number of industrial sectors. A main feature of new general-purpose technology is to enable new ways of production that may increase productivity. So...

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Peer Effects in Language Training for Migrants

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2015

We investigate the relation between peer group composition and language improvement in language classes for adults …. Using unique survey data of migrants participating in an intensive language course in Germany, we found that the age and … are more heterogeneous in terms of regions of origin on average obtain improvements in language skills with a higher …

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Who Should Pay for Certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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Double Standards in Educational Standards - Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - 2008

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...

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The Interplay between Product Innovation, Publishing, Patenting and Developing Standards

Blind, Knut; Krieger, Bastian; Pellens, Maikel - 2022

Firms use a variety of practices to disclose the knowledge generated by their R&D activities, including, but not limited to, publishing findings in scientific journals, patenting new technologies, and contributing to developing standards. While the individual effects of engaging in the listed...

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Enterprise Software and Service Innovation : Standardization Versus Customization

Engelstätter, Benjamin - 2014

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...

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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2008

The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...

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The Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Germany : A Machine Learning Approach

Brunori, Paolo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2020

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be straightforwardly estimated by adopting a machine learning approach, and apply our novel method to analyse the development of IOP in Germany during the last three decades. Hereby, we...

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Returns to Higher Education and Dropouts : A Double Machine Learning Approach

McNamara, Sarah - 2021

This paper provides estimates of the short-term individual returns to Higher Education (HE) in the United Kingdom, focusing on the effects of attending HE on the labour market outcomes for dropouts. Results show differential labour market outcomes for dropouts vs. individuals who have never...

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