The labor market integration of asylum seekers remains a contested issue. Using the EU-Labor-Force-Survey, we characterize the state of asylum seekers’ labor market integration in Europe, and provide…
Innovationen sind essenziell für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft. Kooperationen zwischen Unternehmen und wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen gewinnen dabei zunehmend an Bedeutung. Unternehmen, die…
We study mechanism design with flexible but costly information acquisition. There is a principal and four or more agents, sharing a common prior over a set of payoff-relevant states. The principal proposes a…
The fundamental challenges that Germany is facing – increasing productivity, combining the transformation to climate neutrality with economic growth, making the economy more resilient – cannot be tackled in…
In an increasingly digitalised world, generative AI and big data technologies are opening up completely new horizons. Businesses harness the potential of these innovations to generate tailored content and…
The circular economy represents a systematic shift in production and consumption, aimed at extending the life cycle of products and materials while minimizing resource use and waste. Achieving the goals of the…
We investigate whether strengthened legal protection of trade secrets increases the likelihood of a firm being acquired. Stronger protection can make a firm more attractive for acquisition due to better…
This paper characterizes the short- and long-run Cournot equilibrium with heterogeneous firms and stochastic technological change. In our model, firms have different technologies with heterogeneous fixed and…
