Klaus Keller, M.A.

Ehemaliger wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research



Arbeitsbereiche:

Internationaler Handel, Arbeitsökonomik, Angewandte Ökonometrie, Automatisierung und Künstliche Intelligenz

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

07/2019 – 03/2024
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Doktorand am Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb (Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research)
Titel der Dissertation: “The Economics of Industrial Automation – Competition, Labor Market Power, and Political Participation”

04/2022 – 05/2022
Gastwissenschaftler, Boston University, Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston, MA, USA, Gastgeber: James Bessen

03/2019 – 07/2019
Forschungsreferent, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Genf, Schweiz

09/2018 – 03/2019
Forschungspraktikum, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Genf, Schweiz

06/2018 – 09/2018
Forschungspraktikum, World Trade Organization (ILO), Genf, Schweiz

01/2018 – 02/2018
Forschungspraktikum, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel

09/2017 – 12/2017
Swiss Mobility Exchange, Universität St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Schweiz

09/2016 – 09/2018
Master of Arts (M.A.) in Internatonal Economics, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Genf, Schweiz

06/2016 – 09/2016
Traineeship, Delegation der Europäischen Union für die Schweiz und das Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Bern, Schweiz

02/2016 – 04/2016
Praktikum, Ständige Vertretung des Malteserordens bei den Vereinten Nationen in Genf, Schweiz

09/2014 – 05/2015
Austauschstipendium, Faculty of Art and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Libanon

09/2012 – 06/2017
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in International Relations, Université de Genève. Genf, Schweiz

Ehrungen, Stipendien, wissenschaftliche Preise

09/2018 - 03/2019
Carlo-Schmid-Programm des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD)

2017 - 2018
Cusanuswerk-Stipendium

2011
Schaeffler-Preis für das beste naturwissenschaftliche Abitur

Publikationen

Andere Veröffentlichungen, Presseartikel, Interviews

Keller, Klaus; Scheuerer, Stefan; Wiedemann, Klaus (2021). 'New Directions in the European Union's Innovation Policy?' Report on the Conference of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Collaboration with the MPI Alumni Association in Munich, 9 July 2021, GRUR International - Journal of European and International IP Law, 70 (11), 1074-1078. DOI

Diskussionspapiere

Bastos, Paulo; Flach, Lisandra; Keller, Klaus (2023). Robotizing to Compete? Firm-Level Evidence, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 23-23. DOI

  • We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and Central and Eastern European countries in the 1990s. We find that firms facing greater competition in export markets tend to reduce investments in automation technologies. These average negative effects are driven by the least productive firms, while the most efficient exporters in industries that are more prone to automation tend to robotize in order to compete. These findings suggest that an increase in the degree of product market competition widens disparities between firms.

Azar, José; Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, Sampsa (2023). Monopsony and Automation, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 23-21.

  • We examine the impact of labor market power on firms’ adoption of automation technologies. We develop a model that incorporates labor market power into the task-based theory of automation. We show that, due to higher marginal cost of labor, monopsonistic firms have stronger incentives to automate than wage-taking firms, which could amplify or mitigate the negative employment effects of automation. Using data from US commuting zones, our results show that commuting zones that are more exposed to industrial robots exhibit considerably larger reductions in both employment and wages when their labor markets demonstrate higher levels of concentration.
  • Available at SSRN

Chugunova, Marina; Keller, Klaus; Samila, Sampsa (2021). Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US, Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper, No. 21-22. DOI

  • This paper examines the impact of the large structural shocks – automation
    and import competition – on voter turnout during US federal elections from 2000
    to 2016. Although the negative income effect of both shocks is comparable, we
    find that political participation decreases significantly in counties more exposed to
    industrial robots. In contrast, the exposure to rising import competition does not
    reduce voter turnout. A survey experiment reveals that divergent beliefs about the
    effectiveness of government intervention drive this contrast. Our study highlights
    the role of beliefs in the political economy of technological change.

Vorträge

19.09.2023
Monopsony and Automation
Forschungsseminar
Ort: Schloss Ringberg


13.07.2023
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from Portuguese Manufacturing Exporters
TIME Seminar, TU München
Ort: München


09.05.2023
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from Portuguese Manufacturing Exporters
12th Retreat of Collaborative Research Center “Rationality and Competition” TRR 190
Ort: Schwanenwerder


28.04.2023
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from Portuguese Manufacturing Exporters
21st Annual GEP - CEPR Postdoctoral Conference, University of Nottingham
Ort: Nottingham


28.02.2023
Monopsony and Automation
Forschungsseminar
Ort: Frauenchiemsee


06.02.2023
Monopsony and Automation
Innovation Seminar, LMU München
Ort: München


18.10.2022
Labor Cost and the Direction of Innovation
Max-Planck-Institut für Innovation und Wettbewerb
Ort: München


13.09.2022
Monopsony, Automation and Labor Markets
Forschungsseminar
Ort: Bernried


14.07.2022
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from the Eastern European Enlargement
Munich International Economics Retreat, ifo Institut
Ort: München


23.03.2022
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from the Eastern European Enlargement
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University
Ort: online


24.02.2022
Robots, China and Polls: Structural Shocks and Political Participation
Future of Work Conference, University of New Brunswick
Ort: online


02.11.2021
Robotizing to Compete – Evidence from the EU Enlargement
LMU International Trade Retreat
Ort: München


18.10.2021
Robots, China and Polls – Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US
DRUID Conference 2021
Ort: Kopenhagen, Dänemark


13.10.2021
Robots, China and Polls – Structural Shocks and Political Participation in the US
9th Retreat of CRC TRR 190, Collaborative Research Center Rationality and Competition
Ort: Ohlstadt


06.10.2021
Knowledge Spillovers and Corporate Investment in Scientific Research
by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, and Lia Sheer
Harhoff-Schnitzer-Waldinger Reading Seminar
Ort: Berg bei Starnberg


29.09.2021
Automation and Foreign Competition – Evidence from Portuguese Firms
Forschungsseminar
Ort: Feldkirchen-Westerham


19.04.2021
Automation and Foreign Competition – Evidence from Portuguese Firms
Munich Innovation Seminar
Ort: online


24.03.2021
Automation and Foreign Competition – Evidence from Portuguese Firms
Forschungsseminar
Ort: online


10.09.2020
Automation and Public Health – Evidence From US Local Labor Markets
Forschungsseminar
Ort: online


04.03.2020
Automation and Competition – Theory and Empirics
Forschungsseminar
Ort: Schneefernerhaus/Zugspitze


19.02.2020
Growing Apart: Tradable Services and the Fragmentation of the US Economy, by Fabian Eckert
Harhoff-Schnitzer-Waldinger Reading Seminar
Ort: Frauenchiemsee


27.11.2019
Provable Transactions – Exploring the Boundaries of Trust of Smart Contracts on Blockchain
Discussant, TIME Seminar, TU München
Ort: München

Projekte