Projects of the Research Unit Digital Economy

Laufende Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01. – 31.12.2025

    Productivity Drivers and Policies in Germany

    The project examines policy measures aimed at promoting productivity growth in Germany. Building on the analytical framework developed by Van Ark et al. (2023), it applies an existing typology of pro-productivity…

  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…

  3. Project // 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2027

    Utilization of New Data in Communication Contexts at the Enterprise Level

    The EnDiKaU project is a joint projcet with the Justus Liebig University Gießen and part of the Distr@l funding programme of the state of Hesse. It supports Hessian SMEs in the effective use of communication data…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…

  6. 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…

  7. 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

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…