Fabian Gaessler’s research while affiliated with Pompeu Fabra University and other places

... Here we are, however, more interested in exploring a less pessimistic, and we would argue more realistic, aspects of humans learning with and from AI. Successful learning normally requires immediate feedback (Lipnevich & Panadero, 2021), a process that becomes more complex in fields where performance is interdependent on interactions with other actors (Levine et al., 2017). In such scenarios, conventional methods like books, lectures, or even specialized coaching may not suffice (Gaessler & Piezunka, 2023). The alternative, involving interaction with a human training agent, though more efficient, often faces constraints due to availability (Gaessler & Piezunka, 2023). ...

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Computers and chess masters: The role of AI in transforming elite human performance

... Therefore, standardization has emerged as a crucial part of technical progress. Ex-ante collaboration between technology developers and implementers is essential for developing and implementing standards, especially when including private technologies [3]. Inventions are fundamental to meeting technical standards and are protected by standard-essential patents (SEPs). ...

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Efficient Knowledge Acquisition: Standard Essential Patent Analysis Based on Elephant Herding Optimized Kernel-Adaptive Support Vector Machine

... Communication problems like the ones discussed above could complicate this breakout. Since the allocation of Aussiedler aimed, among others, at the prevention of ethnic enclaves (Danzer, Feuerbaum and Gaessler 2020), the growth potential of young firms within the enclave might be very limited and they therefore would need to go mainstream relatively rapidly. ...

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Immigration and New Firm Formation – Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Germany

... 2 Andersson, Karadja and Prawitz (2020) look at the effect of emigration to the US in the 19 th century in Sweden and find that more exposed municipalities experienced an increase in innovation (but they do not identify automation innovations). In a paper subsequent to ours, Danzer, Feuerbaum and Gaessler (2020) exploit German immigrant settlement policy to show that increases in labor supply discourage local automation innovation, while we exploit firm-level variation and focus on the effect of labor cost on global innovation. A large literature shows that the direction of innovation is endogenous in other contexts (e.g. ...

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Induced Automation: Evidence from Firm-level Patent Data

... For assessing the degree of fencing around drugs as influenced by Markush patents, we rely on the Cortellis database. Following Gaessler and Wagner (2022), we identify all EPO patent documents associated with a given drug from Cortellis. 19 Note, that drugs are often tested against different medical indications. ...

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Mapping Markush

... San (2019) shows that following the exclusion of Mexican seasonal agricultural workers, patenting increased for crops that rely more on agricultural labor. Danzer et al. (2020) rely on the regional allocation in Germany of ethnic German migrants from the collapsing Soviet Union. They also classify patents as automation or nonautomation and find that regions receiving more immigrants developed fewer automation patents. ...

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Directed Technical Change in Labor and Environmental Economics