This year’s online conference is focusing on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the EU legislative proposal to regulate digital markets in order to prevent abuses of market power. This regulatory tool contains behavioral obligations for large online platforms (‘gatekeepers’) aimed at reducing entry barriers and ensuring fairness in the relationship between digital platforms and their different user...
The tremendous growth of digital transactions – mainly through online platforms - is profoundly affecting the way we interact and opening vast opportunities to improve our lives. Consumers are benefiting from an unprecedented proliferation of new services and products that previously were too costly to be developed and marketed to customers. At the same time, the characteristics of platform...
Studie zum Mobilfunknetzausbau in dünn besiedelten Regionen vergleicht drei Kooperationsmodelle – Weniger Kosten für Anbieter bei umfassendem Network Sharing, aber geringere Netzabdeckung – KonsumentInnen profitieren am stärksten von Roaming-Abkommen – Gebietsabsprachen zwischen Anbietern erhöhen Netzabdeckung – Behörden könnten Roaming-Abkommen ...
This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: Large-scale personal data collection for the purpose of personalized predictions has been driven by high expectations of efficiency gains in many business and policy settings. Yet, quantifying the trade-off between the costs of linking disconnected silos of personal...
Die digitale Transformation verändert nachhaltig die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Menschen und Maschinen. Dabei werden physische und virtuelle Welten tiefgreifend miteinander verknüpft. So werden neue Kommunikationswege etabliert und es entstehen neue Möglichkeiten, Arbeitszeiten, Arbeitsmethoden und Arbeitsorte zu flexibilisieren. Die Digitalisierung birgt Chancen für die...
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander Kritikos erschien am 19.1.2021 in der WELT. Der Wirtschaftseinbruch in Griechenland durch Corona ist enorm. Aber die Regierung Mitsotakis verteilt die Hilfsgelder der EU nicht mit der Gießkanne, sondern fördert gezielt Zukunftsprojekte: Klimaschutz, Bildung, Digitalisierung. Viele Hoffnungen der griechischen Bevölkerung ruhten auf dem neuen Premier ...
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband ...
As part of the 2019 frequency allocation process for mobile communications, the Federal Network Agency required network providers to achieve a certain level of mobile network coverage for the population. Cooperation between different network providers was also permitted for the first time, although it was not specified what forms of cooperation are permitted. Using a model, this report shows that providers ...