Projects of the Research Unit Digital Economy

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2002 – 31.08.2004

    ICT as a General Purpose Technology

    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…

  2. Project // 01.01.2002 – 31.08.2004

    ICT, the demand for heterogenous labor, and the structure of wages.

    <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…

  3. Project // 01.01.2002 – 31.07.2004

    Sales Activities and Pricing Strategies in Digital Markets

    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…

  4. Project // 01.01.2002 – 30.06.2015

    ZEW ICT Survey: Diffusion and Use of Information and Communication Technologies

    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…

  5. Project // 01.09.2001 – 30.08.2002

    Panel data models of differentiated product markets

    How do product demand and market shares react if product prices are changed? This traditional question of Industrial Organization has experienced a rebirth in recent years. Starting from the hedonic price…

  6. Project // 01.09.2001 – 31.12.2003

    The effects of digitalization on classical markets

    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…

  7. Project // 01.09.2001 – 30.08.2002

    Outsourcing of ICT-services

    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…

  8. Project // 01.05.2001 – 30.11.2002

    ICT and workplace reorganisation

    In the literature, there is a controverse discussion on the productivity effects of information- and communication technologies (ICT). Some recent studies hint at the relationship between ICT and workplace…

  9. Project // 01.12.2000 – 30.04.2002

    Application of Hedonic Techniques in the Consumer Price Index - Case of IT and Automobile

    The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) is undertaking a study for the Statistical Office Germany in order to discern the possibilities of applying hedonic techniques to quantify quality changes in…