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Diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023

Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe's digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

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Evidence on the adoption of Artificial Intelligence: The role of skills shortage

Carioli, Paolo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fernández, Gastón P. - 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is considered to be the next general-purpose technology, with the potential of performing …

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A look at both sides of the coin: Investigating the protective and the disclosure effect of patenting

Heger, Diana; Zaby, Alexandra K. - 2013

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of the two basic effects of patenting: the positive effect of temporarily mitigating competition, and the negative effect of mandatory disclosure of a patent application. Providing empirical evidence for the presented theoretical...

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Big data and firm-level productivity: A cross-country comparison

Andres, Raphaela; Niebel, Thomas; Sack, Robin - 2024

Until today, the question of how digitalisation and, in particular, individual digital technologies affect productivity is still the subject of controversial debate. Using administrative firm-level data provided by the Dutch and the German statistical offices, we investigate the economic...

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Estimation of sectoral elasticities of substitution along the international technology frontier

Baccianti, Claudio - 2013

Sectoral heterogeneity is crucial to address several economic questions. This paper provides a detailed mapping of sectoral production possibility frontiers, using different nesting structures and levels of aggregation (primary, secondary, tertiary activities and energy-intensive firms)....

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014

performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has … (covering manufacturing and service industries) and 13 years (1995-2007), the analysis shows that skill-biased technology … bilateral distance between two countries proves to be an important mediating factor, whereas intersectoral trade linkages, so …

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Behrens, Vanessa; Trunschke, Markus - 2020

In this paper we explore the relationship between innovative firms that patent technology related to Industry 4.0 and ….0 technology has on average a wider industrial applicability. Results of our Fixed Effects Least Squares regressions and Dynamic …

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