In the transition periods between new technologies, marked setbacks in productivity growth are possible. Whereas new private goods are not fully visible in national accounts, often only their negative substitution effects turn up. If this is a market phenomenon, it should be reflected in weaker...

Changes in behaviour such as a greater acceptance of technology can strengthen potential output permanently. By contrast, negative effects may arise from growing protectionist attitudes or long-lasting uncertainties and “scarring effects”. In any case, the crisis has induced a technology...

The lasting economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic will become apparent in the development of the macroeconomic factors of production - labour, capital, human capital as well as the stock of technical knowledge. Changes in behaviour such as a greater acceptance of technology can strengthen...

Aufgrund ihrer (Querschnitts-)Technologien ist die Elektroindustrie in Deutschland vergleichsweise stark mit anderen Wirtschaftszweigen verwoben: Einerseits ist die kurz- bis mittelfristige wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der Elektroindustrie eng an den allgemeinen Konjunkturverlauf gekoppelt....