Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-090 // 2015

    Mobile and More Productive? Firm-Level Evidence on the Productivity Effects of Mobile Internet Use

    Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-089 // 2015

    Does Wikipedia Matter? The Effect of Wikipedia on Tourist Choices

    We document a causal influence of online user-generated information on realworld economic outcomes. In particular, we conduct a randomized field experiment to test whether additional information on Wikipedia…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-088 // 2015

    Does Skill-Biased Technical Change Diffuse Internationally?

    This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 15-087 // 2015

    Mobile Information and Communication Technologies, Flexible Work Organization and Labor Productivity: Firm-Level Evidence

    Mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) have started to diffuse rapidly in the business sector. This study tests for the complementarity between the use of mobile ICT and organizational practices…

  5. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2015

    4. Quartal 2015

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