Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 24-043 // 2024

    News Media Bargaining Codes

    We build a model of the news market where advertisers allocate their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by…

  2. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2024

    1. Quartal 2024

    • Optimismus in der Informationswirtschaft
    • DSGVO: Kritische Sicht der Unternehmen ändert sich im Zeitverlauf kaum
  3. ZEW policy brief No. 24-06 // 2024

    Using Market Design to Improve Red Teaming of Generative AI Models

    With the final approval of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), it is now clear that general-purpose AI (GPAI) models with systemic risk will need to undergo adversarial testing. This provision is a…

  4. Non-Refereed Journal // 2024

    Transformative F&I-Politik am Beispiel neuer Technologien in der Landwirtschaft und sozialer Innovationen

    The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2024

    To Diversify or Not? The Link Between Global Sourcing of ICT Goods and Firm Performance

    We analyze variation in firm performance as a function of the international diversification of ICT imports by firms. Drawing on administrative data from 2010 and 2014 on nearly 4000 German manufacturing firms,…