Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

• Female Board Members Have a Positive Impact on Company Value
• Fears over Infection Cause Screening Gap
• How Does Carbon Offsetting Affect Emissions Trading Schemes?
• COVID-19 State Aid Leads to Dangerous…

Web-based innovation indicators may provide new insights into firm-level innovation activities. However, little is known yet about the accuracy and relevance of web-based information for measuring innovation. In…

This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly model of horizontal product differentiation, firms use consumer information to price…

• Decline in China’s Research Productivity Harms Economic Growth
• Coronavirus Tax Assistance Too Unambitious
• Large Differences in Income and Employment of University Dropouts Across Europe
• Living Lab Could…

This paper studies whether innovations underlying skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally and thereby contribute to the increasing skill demand and inequality in other countries. Using a new…

This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers' qualifications and their jobs' educational requirements. Employing individual-level panel data…

This article studies competition in markets with transport costs and capacity constraints. Using a rich micro-level data set of the cement industry in Germany, we study a cartel breakdown to identify the effect…