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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital...

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms’ female managers or female owners were better...

This paper examines the determinants of identity theft, focusing especially on the influence of internet diffusion. Results, based on...

KBW 12: The trend decline of productivity growth in Germany is not due to a single cause but is the result of the interplay of...

There is a growing body of literature on the impact of the Internet as an innovative transaction and networking technique on...

There is a growing body of literature on the impact of the Internet as an innovative transaction and networking technique on...

Declining spatial transaction costs will affect patterns of urban specialization. The underlying hypothesis is that production...

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