IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15204

Improving Entrepreneurs' Digital Skills and Firms' Digital Competencies through Business Apps Training: A Study of Small Firms

Nick Drydakis

published in: Sustainability, 2022, 14 (8), 4417.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15077

Breakthroughs, Backlashes and Artificial General Intelligence: An Extended Real Options Approach

Thomas Gries, Wim Naudé

published in: W. Naudé and T. Gries and N. Dimitri (eds.), Artificial Intelligence: Economic Perspectives and Models, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14928

A Procedural Perspective on Academic Spin-off Creation: The Changing Relevance of Academic and Commercial Logics

Uwe Cantner, Philip Doerr, Maximilian Göthner, Matthias Huegel, Martin Kalthaus

published in: Small Business Economics, 2024, 62, 1555–1590

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14852

Misappropriation of R&D Subsidies: Estimating Treatment Effects with One-Sided Noncompliance

Philipp Boeing, Bettina Peters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14830

Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege, Sebastian Siegloch

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2025, 17 (1), 432- 463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14545

Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Findings from a Machine Learning Contest

Wim Naudé, Amy Bray, Celina Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14297

Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Sabrina T. Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen, Jun Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14211

Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings

Karen Clay, Edson Severnini, Xiaochen Sun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14102

Are Unions Detrimental to Innovation? Theory and Evidence

Fabio Berton, Stefano Dughera, Andrea Ricci

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14082

The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Philippe Aghion, Antonin Bergeaud, John Van Reenen

published in: American Economic Review, 2023, 113 (11), 2894 -2936

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14079

What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D

Ruchir Agarwal, Patrick Gaule

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 82, 102591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13933

Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health: Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes?

Nick Drydakis

published in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 117, 106661

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13535

Design Choices for Central Bank Digital Currency: Policy and Technical Considerations

Sarah Allen, Srdjan Capkun, Ittay Eyal, Giulia Fanti, Bryan Ford, James Grimmelmann, Ari Juels, Kari Kostiainen, Sarah Meiklejohn, Andrew Miller, Eswar Prasad, Karl Wüst, Fan Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13429

Labor Supply and Automation Innovation

Alexander M. Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum, Fabian Gaessler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13381

Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Francesco Campo, Mariapia Mendola, Andrea Morrison, Gianmarco Ottaviano

published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 1971-2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13078

Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence

Dany Bahar, Hillel Rapoport, Riccardo Turati

published as 'Birthplace diversity and economic complexity: Cross-country evidence' in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (8), 103991