KBW 39: As part of their SME Report Thuringia, the authors note that Thuringia's gross domestic product has developed less favorably than GDP...

Against the backdrop of a trend towards a cashless society and the emergence of private electronic monies, the paper discusses properties of...

Following a brief discussion of the characteristics of money, we provide an overview of virtual currencies describing relevant technological...

This article (german) looks at the cryptocurrency phenomenon, in particular with regards to costs and scalability, stability of value, and...

We investigate the relationship of the new wave of digitalization of occupations with entry into different types of entrepreneurship in the...

This in-depth analysis discusses issues in trade in digitally deliverable services and the geopolitics of digital trade policy. Digitally...

Digital trade is on the rise, but it is not yet well understood and remains largely unregulated. Trade is typically considered to be digital...

Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets, financial...

Taking robotic patents between 1977 and 2017 and building upon the topic modeling technique, we extract their latent topics, analyze how...

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: “third-party funded digital barter”: consumers of digital services get...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 122: In their paper, the authors warn of a new trend towards autarky under the catchword of "technology sovereignty",...

The G20 was shaped out of the 2008 global financial crisis, which took place only a couple of years after the world officially turned more...

KBW 26: The COVID-19 virus has spread to 215 countries, virtually covering all areas of the world, and has plunged the world in a health...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 142: Taiwan and South Korea are generally considered to be more successful than many others in containing the spread of...

This paper investigates the impact of new digital technologies, including advances in artificial intelligence, on men’s and women’s jobs...

We investigate heterogeneous effects of new digital technologies on the individual-level employment- and wage dynamics in the U.S. labor...

We investigate the impact of new digital technologies upon occupations. We argue that these impacts may be both destructive and...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

Old fears die hard. About a quarter of a century years ago the US launched a “structural impediment initiative” against Japan when both trade...

This research contributes to the literature on entrepreneurship by studying whether design patents and utility patents have similar effects on...