Due to the minor relevance of search and transaction costs as well as the low costs of price change and market entry, digital markets should come preferably close to the ideal of a perfect competition. For company…
The increased implementation of modern information and communication technologies is leading to observable changes within the organizational structures of the economy. A "virtualization" can be observed in the…
This project explored various channels how advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) affect the production potentials and the innovation capacities of enterprises. The main focus was to assess…
In this project, the IAB model is subejected to continued development in three respects: (1) Interfacing of the model for interactive control, (2) integration of an alternative benchmark data set for 1998, (3)…
The conventional, restoration-oriented environmental conservation strategies pursued in the past three decades has done much to improve on environmental protecton goals, yet, as of today, it is being more and more…
In a combined effort with the business information agency Creditreform, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) conducted a quarterly survey among service providers for the information society during 2002…
The target of this major-study is the development and evaluation of concrete approaches to integrate the transport sector into a CO2-Emissions-Trading-System. The three approaches, the upstream-approach with fixed…
Patents are increasingly being used as strategic instruments in competitive markets. The signalling character of patents as indicator of indicating high innovation dynamics has increased over the past ten years,…
Modern information and communication technologies (ICT) have strongly penetrated all business sectors in recent years. Furthermore, increasing digitalisation changes our economic activity and the way we…
<HTML>The rapid diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the workplace has been accompanied by vivid discussions in public and among economic scholars. In this project, the impact of ICT on…