Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Digitale Ökonomie

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-015 // 2025

    Competition Among Digital Services: Evidence From the 2021 Meta Outage

    On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 25-016 // 2025

    Skills, Job Application Strategies, and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence From Online Freelancing

    This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2025

    Do managers accept artificial intelligence? Insights into the role of business area and AI functionality

    More and more companies use artificial intelligence (AI). Research aimed to understand acceptance from the perspective of AI users or people affected by AI decisions. However, the perspective of decision-makers…

  4. ZEW Monthly // 2025

    01/2025 – Digitalisierung

    In einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt eröffnen Technologien wie generative KI und Big Data völlig neue Perspektiven. Unternehmen setzen diese Innovationen ein, um Inhalte maßgeschneidert zu erstellen und ihre…