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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution: Firm-level evidence

Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …

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Digitalization and the future of work: Macroeconomic consequences

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019

of what machines can do. Nowadays increasingly complex tasks are automatable at a precision which seemed infeasible only … able to perform more and more manual and also cognitive tasks that previously only humans could do. As a result of these … developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are "at risk of automation", spurring public fears of massive job-losses and …

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Organized labor versus robots? Evidence from microdata

Findeisen, Sebastian; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schlenker, Oliver - 2025

institutions - specifically shop-floor worker representation - mediate the impact of automation. Combining German individual … incumbent workers during automation events. When labor markets are tight and replacement costs are high, incumbent workers …

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Mitigating market power under tradeable permits

Heindl, Peter - 2012

As shown by R. Hahn [6], free allocation equal to the amount of permits a firm with market power uses in equilibrium, can prevent welfare losses. If the necessary amount of free allocation is not provided to the firm with market power, a second best solution is obtained where marginal abatement...

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Sources of spillovers for imitation and innovation

Cappelli, Riccardo; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2013

We estimate the effect of R&D spillovers on sales realized by products new to the firm (imitation) and new to the market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and research institutions enhance original innovation.

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Consumer search and firm strategy with multi-attribute products

Gambato, Jacopo - 2024

I analyze a model of directed search in which a consumer inspects a finite number of products sharing attributes with each others. The consumer discovers her valuation for the attributes of the inspected products and adapts her search strategy based on what she has learned. The consumer...

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Mandated data-sharing in hybrid marketplaces

Navarra, Federico; Pino, Flavio; Sandrini, Luca - 2024

We study a hybrid marketplace where a vertically integrated platform competes with a seller in a horizontally differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate consumers, whereas the seller cannot. Our analysis shows that, by properly setting the...

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License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2005

This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. Aside of standard control variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also...

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An empirical test of the asymmetric models on innovative activity: who invests more into R&D - the incumbent or the challenger?

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

The theoretical discussion concerning the question whether the incumbent or the (potential) entrant invests more into R&D has attracted considerable interest. This paper reports the results of an empirical study on this question using data of about 3500 German firms over the years 1992 to 1995....

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