This article aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of Green ICT innovation. We test whether firms active in low-opportunity technological areas…

Deprived housing is recognized as a source of poor health, but there is still little evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. While existing literature identifies neighborhood effects and…

The paper analyses how geographical clustering of beneficiaries might affect the effectiveness of public innovation support programs. The geographical proximity of firms operating in the same industry or field…

Die Zielgenauigkeit ihrer Maßnahmen ist ein wichtiges Anliegen der Sozialpolitik. In diesem Papier zeigen drei Fallstudien typische Defizite bei der Zielgenauigkeit von Rentenreformen. Die erste…

We study the effect of digital tax measures on firm value. By employing an event study methodology, we analyze investor reaction to the European Commission’s proposals on the taxation of digital corporations.…

Scholars and politicians around the world, as well as representatives of competition authorities and financial market regulators, are discussing the importance of indirect corporate links via institutional…

We extend the literature on global supply chains by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring. We develop an analytical model of two-stage production processes that can be…

We investigate the question whether macroeconomic variables contain information about future stock volatility beyond that contained in past volatility. We show that forecasts of GDP and industrial production…