The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of women to that of men. In this study, we use a new...

Technological change is often hypothesized as one of the main drivers of merger activities. This paper analyzes the role of technology in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) at the firm level. Based on a newly created data set that combines financial information and patent data for public firms in...

Mit der Trennung von gesetzlicher und privater Krankenversicherung existieren in Deutschland zwei Krankenversicherungssysteme, die sich in ihren Gestaltungsprinzipien von der Finanzierung über die Unternehmensformen bis hin zur Vergütungssystematik für Ärzte grundlegend unterscheiden. Eine...