The Internet evolved in a largely unregulated environment. Recent developments have, however, initiated a discussion among economists on the role of regulation and antitrust in the market for Internet service…
In a combined effort with the business information agency Creditreform, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducted a quarterly survey among service providers for the information society during 2002…
Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) have strongly penetrated all business sectors in recent years. Furthermore, increasing digitalisation changes our economic activity and the way we…
The increased implementation of modern information and communication technologies is leading to observable changes within the organizational structures of the economy. A "virtualization" can be observed in the…
This project explored various channels how advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the production potentials and the innovation capacities of enterprises. The main focus was to assess…
<HTML>The rapid diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the workplace has been accompanied by vivid discussions in public and among economic scholars. In this project, the impact of ICT on…
Due to the minor relevance of search and transaction costs as well as the low costs of price change and market entry, digital markets should come preferably close to the ideal of a perfect competition. For company…
This project analyzes if and to what extent employee training efforts, the lack of qualified personnel, firm size and employees skill structure influence firms decision to outsource information technology…
There is an increasingly large overlap between digital and classical product markets. Nowadays, job offers can be called up online, used cars are traded over the internet, online auctions take place. The internet…