Innovations contribute to economic growth. Hence, knowledge about drivers of innovation activities is a necessary input for economic policy making when it comes to implement targeted support measures. We focus on firms as potential drivers of innovation and use a novel data-driven approach to...

Innovations contribute to economic growth. Hence, knowledge about drivers of innovation activities is a necessary input for economic policy making when it comes to implement targeted support measures. We focus on firms as potential drivers of innovation and use a novel data-driven approach to...

The popularity of econometric analyses that include variables obtained from text mining is growing rapidly. A frequently applied approach is to identify topics from large corpora, which makes it possible to determine trends that reflect the changing relevance of topics over time. We address the...

Innovations contribute to economic growth. Hence, knowledge about drivers of innovation activities is a necessary input for economic policy making when it comes to implement targeted support measures. We focus on firms as potential drivers of innovation and use a novel data-driven approach to...

Fiscal policy is made in parliament. We go to the roots of changes of fiscal policy in Germany and use a novel data set on all parliamentary speeches in the Bundestag from 1960 to 2021. We propose an embedding-based approach, which allows the representation of words and documents in a shared...

Fiscal policy is made in parliament. We go to the roots of changes of fiscal policy in Germany and use a novel data set on all parliamentary speeches in the Bundestag from 1960 to 2021. We propose an embedding-based approach, which allows the representation of words and documents in a shared...

Fiscal policy is made in parliament. We go to the roots of changes of fiscal policy in Germany and use a novel data set on all parliamentary speeches in the Bundestag from 1960 to 2021. We propose an embedding-based approach, which allows the representation of words and documents in a shared...