We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of … competition in export markets tend to reduce investments in automation technologies. These average negative effects are driven by … micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff …

robots. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative, impact on robot …) Robot use is relatively rare with only 1.55% German plants using robots in 2018. (2) The distribution of robots is highly … robot adoption. Manufacturing plants impacted by the introduction of minimum wage in 2015 are also more likely to adopt …

: (1) Robot use is relatively rare with only 1.55% German plants using robots in 2018. (2) The robot distribution is highly … probability of robot adoption. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative …Using a newly collected dataset with plant-level information of robot use from 2014 to 2018, we provide the first …

We study the impact of a recent digital automation technology - industrial robotics - on the distribution of sales …, productivity, markups, and profits within industries. Our empirical analysis combines data on the industry-level stock of … industrial robots with firms' balance sheet data for six European countries from 2004 to 2013. We find that robots dis …