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"Privacy Regulation and Quality-Enhancing Innovation"

Recent data protection policies, such as the EU GDPR, California CCPA, and Brazilian LGPD, require firms to secure user consent for data collection. The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) also imposes stringent obligations on "gatekeeping firms." This paper, published in the Journal of Industrial

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"Racial bias in newspaper ratings of professional football players"

In this paper, published in the European Economic Review, Francesco Principe from the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Padova and Jan C. van Ours from the Erasmus School of Economics, study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in

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"Overcoming pandemic challenges through product innovation: The role of digital technologies and servitization"

The fast-changing scenario related to the COVID-19 pandemic calls for firms to rapidly redefine and innovate their strategies to sustain their businesses, with research emphasizing the key roles of digital technologies and servitization.   In this paper, Marco Bettiol, Mauro Capestro and Eleonora Di

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"Multinational subsidiaries and green innovation"

In a recent publication, our Valentina De Marchi, Giulio Cainelli, and Roberto Grandinetti analyze whether multinational subsidiaries are more likely than domestic firms to green innovate. Using a survey covering 14 European countries, their results suggest that subsidiaries have an advantage of

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"Does foreign investment hurt job creation at home? The geography of outward FDI and employment in the USA"

Rising political skepticism on the benefits of global economic integration has increased public scrutiny of the foreign activities of domestic firms in virtually all advanced economies. Decisions to invest in new activities abroad are seen by some commentators as potentially detrimental to domestic

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