Austria’s transition to a digital economy and society is slower than in other high-income small open European economies. The rate and pace of utilisation of eight main ICT applications shows that Austrian firms follow peer country counterparts with a gap, which has widened in most areas in...

Airline capacity utilization increased dramatically between 1993 and 2007, after staying fairly level following deregulation. We argue that consumers' use of the Internet to investigate and purchase airline tickets reduces market frictions and allows airlines to meet demand with less capacity...

As more and more activities in the economy become digitized, analytics and data-driven decision-making (DDD) are becoming increasingly important. The adoption of analytics and DDD has been slower in small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) compared to large firms, and reliable causal estimates of the...

This article deals with the moral responsibility of information systems designers, in the context of professional use. In the exercise of this moral responsibility, economic and social dimensions will be specifically discussed here, in the sense that SI have an impact on the development and...

How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure versions, and what determines the variance in the installation distribution? Using the largest dataset ever assembled on user updates, tracking server software updates by over...

A particular tariff option is said to be foggy when another option or a combination of other tariff options offered by the same firm is always less expensive regardless of the usage profile of any customer. Alternatively, tariff fogginess may refer to the whole set of tariff options and it is...

Der Beitrag kommentiert den Stand der Literatur zu den Auswirkungen der Medienberichterstattung auf politische Meinungen und Wahlverhalten. Er geht dabei insbesondere auf den theoretischen Hintergrund, die Rolle der Wettbewerbs- und Regulierungspolitik sowie die Besonderheiten des digitalen...

In Deutschland werden in den nächsten Jahren die Stromzähler von Millionen von Stromletztverbrauchern und Betreibern dezentraler Energieerzeugungsanlagen durch vernetzte intelligente Messsysteme, die auch als Smart Meter bekannt sind, ersetzt. Vor dem Hintergrund des gesetzlichen Rahmens und...

The Internet has radically transformed the way we live our lives. The net changes in consumer surplus and economic activity, however, are difficult to measure because some online activities, such as obtaining news, are new ways of doing old activities while new activities, like social media,...

This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001 led potential customers...