Stiebale, Joel; Südekum, Jens; Woessner, Nicole - 2020
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 …-proportionally raise productivity in those firms that are already most productive to begin with. Those firms are able to increase their …