Der akademische Diskurs zu Digital Responsibility (DR) betrachtet die ethischen und nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Herausforderungen und Fragestellungen auf privater, organisationaler und gesellschaftlicher Ebene, welche entstanden sind durch die umfassende und transformierende Nutzung digitaler...

Smart products, such as smart household appliances, smart health devices or highly automated vehicles, are increasingly finding their way into everyday life. These products raise a number of economic and legal challenges, e.g. regarding product development, consumer acceptance, data privacy and...

Die PhD Summer School on Sustainable Supply Chains findet als B-Tagung an der FernUniversität Hagen statt. The EURO PhD Summer School will lead to the 4th Conference on Sustainable Supply Chains from June 29 to July 1, 2023 in Hagen. The school offers an active forum for PhD students and early...

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for exchange and discussion on topics in competition- and innovation-related research between academic researchers and practitioners in public authorities, legal counsel, and economic consultancies. The conference will comprise plenary as well...

Submissions can be made as theoretical and empirical contributions to the following tracks: Micro- and Macroeconomic Framework: Diffusion and Competition, Productivity, Labour Markets, Ethics and Regulation of AI Entrepreneurship and AI-driven Business Models and Strategies Managing AI: KPIs and...

We propose a general equilibrium model with oligopolistic output markets where two channels can cause a change in market power: (i) technology, via changes to productivity shocks and the cost of entry, (ii) market structure, via changes to the number of potential competitors. First, we...

We explore how firms grow by adding products. In contrast to most earlier work on the topic, our conceptual and empirical framework allows for separate treatment of product innovation (vertical differentiation) and diversification (horizontal differentiation). Chad Syverson Professor of...

We propose a simple explanation for the long-run decline in the startup rate. It was caused by a slowdown in labor supply growth since the late 1970s, largely pre-determined by demographics. This channel explains roughly two-thirds of the decline and why incumbent firm survival and average...

MaCCI strengthens the exchange between researchers of law and economics and, thus, gives impetus in terms of competition policy, regulation, and innovation. t is our ambition to stimulate and disseminate research in the field of innovation policy, competition, market design, and regulation. The...

We use comprehensive micro data in the French manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2017 to document the effects of automation technologies on employment, sales, prices, wages, and the labor share. Causal effects are estimated with event studies and a shift-share IV design...