Publications of the Research Unit Digital Economy

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2009

    Competition and Cooperation in Internet Backbone Services

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2009

    Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies in ICT-Intensive Services

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2008

    Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

    This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-129 // 2008

    Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

    The role of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a driving force for productivity and competitiveness is in the meanwhile well recognized. A look at the country level, however, reveals that the…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-127 // 2008

    ICT, Consulting and Innovative Capabilities

    Over the last decade, industrialized economies have experienced a dramatic increase in their expenditures on information and communication technologies (ICT) and there is broad evidence indicating that the…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 08-126 // 2008

    Endogenous Firm Heterogeneity, ICT and R&D Incentives

    The economic literature has provided robust evidence indicating that the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) has positively affected productivity at aggregate and firm levels. Given the…