This paper investigates the elusive role of productivity heterogeneity in new trade models in the trade and environment nexus. We contrast the Eaton-Kortum and the Melitz models with firm heterogeneity to the Armington and Krugman models without heterogeneity. We show that if firms have a constant emission share in terms of sales — as they do in a wide range of trade and environment models — the...
Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper provides evidence that investment in intangible capital, despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak productivity performance at the aggregate level as it amplifies ...
This article presents the new linked employee-employer study of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-LEE2), which offers new research opportunities for various academic fields. In particular, the study contains two waves of an employer survey for persons in dependent work that is also linkable to the SOEP, a large representative German annual household panel (SOEP-LEE2-Core). Moreover, SOEP-LEE2 includes ...
We study the impact of agglomeration effects on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) for industry groups defined by technology intensity. This allows for non-uniform effects on firms depending on their technological level. We find that urban economies have the largest impact on firm productivity in high-technology industries, while they have no effectin low-technology industries. For firms in the ...
Tomaso Duso hat untersucht, welche Unternehmen besonders unter den gestiegenen Strompreisen leiden. Das Ergebnis der Studie ist, dass es nur in bestimmten Branchen und auch da nicht alle Unternehmen wirklich hart trifft. Deshalb und auch aus wettbewerbsrechtlichen Gründen argumentiert er gegen weitere Subventionen für die Industrie und gegen eine Industriestrompreisbremse.
42 Prozent der Unternehmen in Deutschland nutzen Cloud-Lösungen – IT-Investitionen dieser Unternehmen gehen aber dadurch nicht wie erwartet zurück – Produktivität steigt im verarbeitenden Gewerbe – Wahrscheinlichkeit, auf cloudbasierte Lösungen umzusteigen, nimmt mit Unternehmensgröße und Breitbandverfügbarkeit zu Immer mehr Unternehmen in Deutschland verlegen ihre IT-Aktivitäten in die Cloud, statt ...