Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. ZEW-Wachstums- und Konjunkturanalysen // 2010

    Nr. 1 (März) - 2010

    • Konjunktur legt Pause ein
    • Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
    • Ergebnisse der Februarumfrage 2010
    • "Stimulus" und die Konsequenzen
    • Die Weltkonjunktur aus deutscher Sicht
    • Die Outputeffekte von Steuerreformenin OECD…
  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-089 // 2009

    Open Source, ICT Infrastructure and Firm Performance

    The rapid diffusion of open source software (OSS), the significant investments observed in OSS projects, and the new inter-firm collaborative possibilities enabled by such OSS projects have generated a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-088 // 2009

    Productivity Effects of Business Process Outsourcing - A Firm-level Investigation Based on Panel Data

    During past decades, services gained more and more importance as inputs into the production process of firms, not only in service sectors, but also in manufacturing industries. Additionally, firms nowadays…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-087 // 2009

    Does Interdisciplinarity Lead to Higher Employment Growth of Academic Spinoffs?

    Establishing a new firm is a complex process which comprises many tasks. A common assumption in the theoretical literature on entrepreneurship is therefore that interdisciplinarity is important for successfully…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-086 // 2009

    Enterprise Systems and Innovations

    Enterprise systems, i. e. company-wide packages of enterprise software for planning, calculating and managing business processes, are widely used in various industry branches throughout many countries. In…

  6. ZEW-Wachstums- und Konjunkturanalysen // 2009

    Nr. 4 (Dezember) - 2009

    • Es geht nur sehr langsam aufwärts
    • Die voraussichtliche Lage in der EWU
    • Ergebnisse der Novemberumfrage 2009
    • Stimmung bei Dienstleistern der Informationsgesellschaft deutlich besser
    • Lohnkonvergenz zwischen den neuen…
  7. ZEW-Branchenreport Informationswirtschaft // 2009

    Jahrgang 8, Nr. 3 , Oktober 2009

    Stimmung bei Dienstleistern der Informationsgesellschaft deutlich besser

    Der ZEW-IDI, Stimmungsindikator für den Wirtschaftszweig Dienstleister der Informationsgesellschaft, erreicht im dritten Quartal 2009…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-046 // 2009

    Does Social Software Support Service Innovation?

    Social software serves in particular the communication, cooperation and information sharing between individuals and includes applications like blogs, wikis or online communities. Common to all of these…