"This book provides a comprehensive account of the challenges encountered in empirical economics. It explains approaches used implicitly by researchers and shows where they are adequate and where they break down. It investigates why, in the field of economics, we make so little visible progress...

This paper investigates the causal effect of funding research and development (R&D) cooperation with public universities on the performance of firms. We use comprehensive firm-level panel data from Switzerland that spans from 2010 to 2022 and covers a broad set of variables including the...

This paper investigates how the macroeconomic business cycle impacts the empirical relation between firms' innovations and their sales growth rates. Based on firm-level panel data over the time period 1995-2014, the paper finds no visible sales growth differentials between firms in booming...