Amidst rising competition for land resources and unprecedented global transformations, IAMO Forum 2024 aims to unravel the manifold functions and roles of land for our ever-evolving environment, society, and economy. We seek to understand how land contributes environmental sustainability, social...

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...

International agricultural trade is key to improving global food security. It ensures better access to more diversified and nutritious food, especially in low-income countries, and acts as a safety net against food shortages caused by climate risks, crises, political tensions and other shocks....

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...

It is the objective of this Forum to provide an interdisciplinary and creative discussion environment that generates new ideas for innovative and multidisciplinary research. Its focus is on the analysis of the food system dynamics and interdependencies; the identification of drivers for...

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...