Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW-Wachstums- und Konjunkturanalysen // 2007

    Nr. 1 (März) - 2007

    • Robuste Entwicklung der deutschen Konjunktur erwartet
    • Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
    • ZEW-Finanzmarkttest: Ergebnisse der Februarumfrage 2007
    • Dienstleister der Informationsgesellschaft: Konjunkturelle Lage…
  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2006

    Diffusion of Information and Communication Technology

    Due to startling and continued technological advances, information and communication technology (ICT) has received major attention in analysing innovation and growth dynamics in industrialised countries over the…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2006

    B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?

    We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business--to--business (B2B) e--commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 06-094 // 2006

    Dynamic R&D Incentives with Network Externalities

    This paper studies the incentives to undertake uncertain R&D initiatives in a dynamic duopoly network industry. It is shown that network externalities positively affect the incentives to invest in R&D. In the…