Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Innovationsökonomik und Unternehmensdynamik

  1. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Mandatory Financial Information Disclosure and Credit Ratings

    When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are generally expected to improve their risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-007 // 2024

    Subsidising Innovation Outside or Within Firms’ Existing Knowledge Base: Which Is Best for Radical Innovation?

    Public financial support for firm-level Research and Innovation (R&I) can generate important socio-economic returns. This is especially true if firms use this support to develop radical innovation, defined as…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-003 // 2024

    Do Judicial Assignments Matter? Evidence From Random Case Allocation

    Because judges exercise discretion in how they handle and decide cases, heterogeneity across judges can affect case outcomes and, thus, preferences among litigants for particular judges. However, selection…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 24-002 // 2024

    Productivity, Markups, and Reallocation: Evidence From French Manufacturing Firms From 1994 to 2016

    This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate…

  5. ZEW-Innovationserhebung // 2024

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  6. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2024

    Epidemic Effects in the Diffusion of Emerging Digital Technologies: Evidence from Artificial Intelligence Adoption

    The properties of emerging, digital, and general-purpose technologies make it hard to empirically capture adoption by firms and theoretically its determinants. This study builds on epidemic models of inter-firm…