This study investigates how crises affect firms’ adoption of frontier technologies using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study. The analysis tracks the nature, timing, and pandemic-related motivations of investments among German firms, using longitudinal survey data linked with administrative...

A carbon tax is widely seen as an effective climate policy instrument for discouraging the emission of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. According to the economic theory of the Porter hypothesis, a carbon tax can induce directed technological change toward innovation in clean...

This study aims to examine the factors determining Palestinian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Digital Technology (DT) adoption intention. A modified Technology Organisation Environment (TOE) framework integrated with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory is employed. Data was...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to examine the role of technology paradoxes, including technology anxiety, insecurity and forced usage, to understand consumer adoption behavior towards self-service technology. The present study also investigates the moderating effect of gender and...

Using a narrative identification of tax changes in the United States over the post-WWII period, we document that a temporary cut in corporate income tax rates leads to a long-lasting increase in innovation and productivity, whereas changes in personal income tax rates only have short-term...

Can standard measures of industrial policy such as R&D subsidies or financial support for machine replacement be effective tools to reverse the current pattern of increasing market power and declining business dynamism? To answer this question we explore the effects of various industrial policy...