Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW policy brief No. 18-05 // 2018

    How the Digital Transformation of the Economy Can Succeed

    The digital transformation is one of the greatest challenges of our time. High-speed internet, mobile devices, intelligent software algorithms as well as data storage and processing are changing economic and…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-023 // 2018

    Unemployment and Online Labor

    We analyze the relationship between unemployment and the supply of online labor for microtasking. Using detailed US data from a large microtasking platform between 2011 and 2015, we study the participation and…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-020 // 2018

    Go for Gigabit? First Evidence on Economic Benefits of (Ultra-)Fast Broadband Technologies in Europe

    The literature on the effects of telecommunications infrastructure investments find positive macroeconomic effects, however, it is severely constrained because it could hitherto only analyze investment up to…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-013 // 2018

    Trust-Based Work Time and the Productivity Effects of Mobile Information Technologies in the Workplace

    We investigate whether the returns to mobile information and communication technology (ICT) in the workplace are contingent on granting employees autonomy over the structure of their workday through trust-based…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Evaluation of Best Price Clauses in Hotel Booking

    We analyze the best price clauses (BPCs) of online travel agents (OTAs) using meta-search price data of nearly 30,000 hotels in different countries. We find that BPCs influence the pricing and availability of…