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Cognitive Performance in the Home Office - Evidence from Professional Chess
Künn, Steffen; Seel, Christian; Zegners, Dainis - 2020
During the recent COVID-19 pandemic, traditional (offline) chess tournaments were prohibited and instead held online. We exploit this as a unique setting to assess the impact of moving offline tasks online on the cognitive performance of individuals. We use the Artificial Intelligence embodied...
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Artificial Intelligence against COVID-19: An Early Review
Naudé, Wim - 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a potentially powerful tool in the fight against the COVID- 19 pandemic. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, there has been a scramble to use AI. This article provides an early, and necessarily selective review, discussing the contribution of AI to the fight...
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Entrepreneurial Recovery from COVID-19: Decentralization, Democratization, Demand, Distribution, and Demography
Naudé, Wim - 2020
that there is a strong possibility that the unintended damage to entrepreneurship, innovation and growth could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270114
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Industrialization under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after COVID-19
Naudé, Wim - 2020
€“ innovation and trade – are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent … of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate …. The COVID-19 pandemic may cause a permanent reduction in innovation and entrepreneurship and may even bring the 4th …
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Extreme Events, Entrepreneurial Start-Ups, and Innovation: Theoretical Conjectures
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2020
whether extreme events can positively impact (some) entrepreneurship and innovation. Based on this, we propose a partial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322634
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What Drives Innovation? Lessons from COVID-19 R&D
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaule, Patrick - 2021
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and … innovation can be very large, as demonstrated by aggregate flow of clinical trials increasing by 38% in 2020, with limited … economists are naturally in favor of market size as a driving force for innovation (i.e."if the market size is sufficiently large …
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Working from Home Around the World
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Barrero, Jose Maria; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2022
innovation. …
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The Pandemic Push: Digital Technologies and Workforce Adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
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Job Satisfaction and Work-Life Balance: Differences between Homework and Work at the Workplace of the Company
Bellmann, Lutz; Hübler, Olaf - 2020
Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter John; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art languageprocessing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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