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  News // 21.10.2024

  How Do Think Tanks Work?

  the complexity of geography to its basics. The goal isn’t to oversimplify but to condense the information down to the core. We spend a lot of time and energy on that. Long-term research is essential to [...] long-term analyses are no longer listened to. And isn’t it a problem for think tanks in a post-fact society that they provide a basis for arguments for a seemingly objective truth in each case, thereby reinforcing [...] institutions. NGOs do the same, sometimes even with government funding. Ideally, those who receive the information know who has what interests when presenting their arguments. Policymakers should be able consider
• Events // 21.11.2024

  Endogenous Peer Based Discrimination

  depending on the number of conformists and conformists pay a cognitive cost for considering additional information. They find that the two evolutionary stable states are such that either all employers are rational [...] number of jobs, and the magnitude of the conformity cognitive cost influence the likelihood of a society with only conformist employers. Initially, the authors assume equal remuneration among employers
• Publications // 25.04.2024

  Refereed Journal - Pricing Carbon in a Multi-Sector Economy with Social Discounting

  underlie the established view that uniform emissions pricing is optimal, focusing on economies where society values the well-being of future generations more than private actors. When social and private discount [...] relative to uniform pricing. Realizing these welfare gains, however, requires that the regulator has information on the technology heterogeneity across sectors. Differentiated carbon pricing based on imperfect
• Publications // 13.09.2023

  Refereed Journal - Information Acquisition and Diffusion in Markets

  Consumers acquire information through their own search efforts or through word-of-mouthcommunication within their social network. Information diffusion leads to free-riding andless active search [...] for small search cost. Prices are lowerin societies with more connections, while price dispersion remains even in fully connectedsocieties.
• Projects // 01.04.2023

  YouTube Adpocalypse: The YouTubers' Journey from Ads-Based to Patron-Based Revenues

  creator economy. By providing easy access for content producers and content consumers, decentralized information sharing has implications for democracy and culture, as filter bubbles on social media and fake [...] g the content provided is crucial to design platforms and policies that support a knowledgeable society. One such potential influence factor is the platform’s business model, as we can observe [...] provide? We aim at answering these question using data from Patreon along with YouTube presence information.
• Publications // 13.04.2023

  Refereed Journal - The Open Innovation in Science Research Field: A Collaborative Conceptualisation Approach

  translating them into innovation. Moreover, it elucidates individual-, team-, organisation-, field-, and society‐level factors shaping OIS practices. To conceptualise the framework, we employed a collaborative [...] between existing approaches. The OIS Research Framework thus serves as a basis for future research, informs policy discussions, and provides guidance to scientists and practitioners.
• Events // 27.03.2023

  Test-Optional Admissions

  student body. This argument is unsatisfying: how can a college make better decisions with less information? This paper instead argues that test-optional policies may be driven by social pressure on colleges' [...] pressure is important, a college can use a test-optional policy to reduce its “disagreement cost” with society and obtain a student pool the college prefers. They discuss which students either benefit from or
• Projects // 01.01.2006

  Innovative Capabilities and the Role of Consultants in the Information Economy

  services with regard to the innovation system and the transformation towards an information- and knowledge-based economy and society.Some of the findings, which were partly surprising, were supported by the
• Projects // 01.01.2006

  Evaluation, Innovation, Forschung, Informationtechnologie

  IST (Information Society Technologies) reside among the European Commisions priorities within the Framework Programme structuring European research activities. The project is aimed at an assessment of
• Projects // 01.01.2005

  The Value of Patents for Todays Economy and Society

  differentiated investigation of the quality and implications of patents in the European economies and societies is of great importance. The goal of this study is to assess the value of the patents and their impact [...] patents through direct measures and other indicators of the impact of patents on the economy and society. Moreover, we will provide an empirical analysis of some soft, indirect effects of the patent system [...] technological areas and types of applicants. Additionally, the PatVal dataset enables us to obtain information on whether the patent in the sample was: i) used internally by the assignee for economic purposes;