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• Events // 18.12.2024

  Exploring Global Embodied Emissions of Digital Technologies Using Input-Output Data Accounting for Total Digital Demand

  focus on the sectors “Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products”, “Telecommunications”, and “Computer programming”, “consultancy and information service activities”. Extending the classical
• Publications // 01.07.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? The Unequal Health Effects of Digitalization

  shifts into more complex and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier
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  News // 23.04.2024

  “The AI Act Shouldn’t Stifle the Market Dynamics“

  or sales portals – from benefiting from broad knowledge, while favouring their own products and services and putting competitors at a disadvantage. BZ: Is the antitrust toolkit sufficient for this? During [...] There are already some requirements concerning interconnectivity and data portability for messaging services. But the DMA has only recently taken effect. The only thing missing is experience. BZ: Right now [...] their massive global data reserves that they’ve developed for decades. They also have the necessary computing capacities. However, they still don’t have the requisite data expertise for individual industry
• Events // 01.03.2023

  The Chicken or the Egg? A New Identification Strategy for the Effect of Credit on House Prices, Usig Loan to Income Caps

  indexes, individual tax records, and macroprudential caps. They use exogenous changes to these debt service to income caps, which are heterogeneous over time and individuals, to identify this effect. This [...] the institutional design of the caps in the Netherlands, where an NGO delivers yearly budgetary computations, upon which the DSTI caps are based. These caps differ by household income and the mortgage interest
• Projects // 01.09.1996

  The Impact of Non-Profit Temping Agencies in the West German State of Rhine-Land-Palatinate

  thanwithout "non-profit temping". It is based on data of theGerman Federal Employment Services made available from filesfor computer-assisted job brokering. Using thecomputer-assisted job brokering-data and ec
• Publications // 26.01.2022

  Refereed Journal - (In) Efficiency of Employment Offices: Is there a Trade-off between Time Saving Case Management and Quality of Welfare Benefit Determination?

  benefit determination for welfare recipients in Germany. A stochastic frontier analysis is used to compute (in)efficiency of Jobcenters (employment offices) in terms of average processing time used for d [...] specific appointments) a trade-off is estimated. Moreover, better skilled employees need less time for servicing cases and produce fewer erroneous decisions.
• Publications // 13.11.2020

  Refereed Journal - A self-consistent method to assess air quality co-benefits from U.S. climate policies

  welfare impacts of mitigation, most studies of air quality co-benefits do not. We employ a U.S. computable general equilibrium economic model previously linked to an air quality modeling system and enhance [...] of pollution-related morbidities and mortalities as an impact to labor and the demand for health services, we find that the welfare impact per unit of reduced pollution varies by region. These interregional
• Publications // 16.09.2020

  Discussion and Working Paper - Capital Incentive Policies in the Age of Cloud Computing: An Empirical Case Study

  target investments in physical capital while excluding digital services like the cloud. Firms view digital investments and digital services as substitutes, therefore narrowly defined incentive programmes [...] This paper assesses whether current policy environments are appropriate for the emergence of cloud computing technology. In particular, this research uses firm level data for Germany and the United Kingdom [...] programmes may actually discourage the use of emerging tools like cloud computing, which are found to enable the growth and performance of young entrants. Overall, the results find that while capital incentive
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  Press Releases // 03.09.2020

  Government Support Programmes May Inhibit Proliferation of Cloud Computing

  the proliferation of cloud computing – which would have further negative consequences for the proliferation of other data-driven technologies that depend on cloud computing, such as big-data applications [...] Companies regard investment in physical capital and cloud computing as substitutes and invest more in physical capital when they have access to financial support from the state. Programmes for promoting [...] promoting investment in new technologies should therefore be extended to digital services so as to include companies that increasingly deal with intangible goods. This is the result of a recent study by ZEW Mannheim
• Publications // 03.09.2020

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Capital Incentive Policies in the Age of Cloud Computing: An Empirical Case Study

  target investments in physical capital while excluding digital services like the cloud. Firms view digital investments and digital services as substitutes, therefore narrowly define dincentive programmes [...] following paper assesses whether current policy environments are appropriate for the emergence of cloud computing technology. In particular, this research uses firm-level data for Germany and the UK to examine [...] programmes may actually discourage the use of emerging tools like cloud computing, which are found to enable the growth and performance of young entrants. Overall, the results find that while capital incentive