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Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.11.2024 – 30.09.2028

    Wissenschaftliche (Kurz)-Expertisen zu Grundsatzfragen des Sozialstaats, der Arbeitswelt und der sozialen Marktwirtschaft (2025-2028)

    01.11.2024 – 30.09.2028
    Digital Economy
  2. Project // 01.02.2024 – 31.07.2027

    WinWin4WorkLife: Healthy, inclusive and sustainable remote work futures as a Win-Win for employees and employers

    WinWin4Worklife would like to help make flexible working arrangements (Remote Working Arrangements, RWA) in Europe healthy, integrative and sustainable.

    The project has five main objectives:
    1) to develop an…

    01.02.2024 – 31.07.2027
    Digital Economy
  3. Project // 01.04.2023 – 30.09.2025

    YouTube Adpocalypse: The YouTubers' Journey from Ads-Based to Patron-Based Revenues

    Digital platforms largely transform the creator economy. By providing easy access for content producers and content consumers, decentralized information sharing has implications for democracy and culture, as…

    01.04.2023 – 30.09.2025
    Digital Economy
  4. Project // 01.01.2023 – 31.03.2026

    Data-driven Analysis of Hate Speech on German Twitter and the Effects of Regulation

    Social media have lately become one of the primary information channels for many individuals, which was exacerbated during the recent pandemic. As such, social media is a major example of the ambivalence of…

    01.01.2023 – 31.03.2026
    Digital Economy
  5. Project // 01.06.2019 – 31.03.2025

    Measurement of the Digitalisation of the German Economy

    The purpose of the project is to measure the digitalisation of the German economy and to track its development over time. The results will serve as an…

    01.06.2019 – 31.03.2025
    Digital Economy
  6. Project // 01.01.2012 – current

    Economic survey of the information sector

    The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducts a quarterly survey among companies in the information sector starting in the third quarter of 2011. The latter effort is a follow-up project, replacing the …

    01.01.2012 – current
    Digital Economy

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.05.2024 – 28.02.2025

    Calculation of the federal government's digital budget

    How much has the German government spent on digital policy initiatives in recent years? This question cannot be answered ad hoc on the basis of the available data. The need for a centralised digital budget has…

    01.05.2024 – 28.02.2025
    Digital Economy
  2. Project // 01.06.2022 – 31.03.2024

    How Forward Looking Does the Federal Government Invest? Development of a Monitoring of the Future Orientation of the Federal Budget

    The current German government aims to make the 2020s "a decade of investment into the future”. In their coalition agreement, the coalition parties promise a significant increase in investment in climate …

    01.06.2022 – 31.03.2024
    Digital Economy
  3. Project // 01.06.2021 – 31.03.2024

    Taming Tech Giants’ Algorithms: The Amazon Buy-Box Case

    Overview
    Many digital platforms operate as two-sided markets, facilitating the matching between sellers and buyers. Due to ICT developments, online marketplaces such as Amazon are increasingly relevant in our…

    01.06.2021 – 31.03.2024
    Digital Economy