Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-132 // 2014

    Spillovers in Networks of User Generated Content: Pseudo-Experimental Evidence on Wikipedia

    I quantify spillovers of attention in a network of content pages, which is challenging, because such networks form endogenously. I exploit exogenous variation in the article network of German Wikipedia to…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-131 // 2014

    Money and Privacy – Android Market Evidence

    We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-130 // 2014

    Overqualification of Graduates: Assessing the Role of Family Background

    Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study…