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Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closingIWHThe Economist, January 15, 2026
We document and dissect a stylized fact about firm growth: the shift from labor to intermediate inputs. This shift occurs in input quantities, cost and output shares, and output elasticities.
This paper estimates the possible AI contribution to future labor productivity growth assuming that AI is both a “general purpose technology” and an “innovation in the method of innovation.” The framework used in this paper separates an upstream innovation sector from a downstream production sector.
The CompNet conference discusses questions related to firm productivity, competition on output and input markets, internal and external factors hampering the reallocation of factors of production and the diffusion and adoption of new knowledge and technologies as well as the implication of such barriers for welfare and economic growth policies and the role of globalization, trade and new technologies.
The Halle Forum on Urban Economic Growth established in 2006 has the aim to bring together original economic and interdisciplinary papers that cast some light on new developments in theoretical and empirical research on economic growth and development in urban environments. The Forum should also give PhD students an opportunity for presenting and discussing their research results.
Cities all over the world have a very prominent function for generating creativity and economic growth. The institutional conditions for this function differ a lot between nations, not least between Russia and Germany. The Workshop shall promote the exchange of research results on the impact of these differences on the local economy. The main focus is laid on the urban system in Russia.
The Halle Forum on Urban Economic Growth - established in 2006 - aims at bringing together original economic and interdisciplinary papers that cast some light on new developments in theoretical and empirical research on economic growth and development in urban environments.
Focusing on both micro and aggregate U.S. data, we document the existence of a significant link between aggregate uncertainty, capital market valuations and reallocation of resources away from risky R&D-intensive capital.
