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Changes in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of data collection modes in survey research. The proliferation of the computer has allowed the creation of web and computer assisted auto-interview data collection modes. Virtual worlds are a new application of computer...
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Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
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The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and …-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into …
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Die Video-Plattform Youtube ist eine der meistbesuchten Webseiten weltweit. Youtube-Stars erreichen mit ihren Videos große Zuschauergruppen und können als Multiplikatoren für Werbebotschaften dienen. Sie sind oftmals Meinungsführer, denen hohes Vertrauen entgegengebracht wird, weshalb sie...
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Good corporate reputation is seen as one of the most valuable assets. It is believed to cause a multitude of favorable impacts within different stakeholder groups. As a consequence, a multitude of studies analyzed the relationship between corporate reputation and financial performance. However,...
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This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the recently documented relationship between pollution and social media, I exploit exogenous variation in local air quality as the first step to instrument for online aggression. In an...
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Im Hinblick auf die Verabschiedung des Digital Services Act im Jahr 2022, der einen neuen horizontalen Rechtsrahmen für die Regulierung digitaler Dienste vorsieht, analysiert dieses Diskussionspapier die Moderation von Inhalten auf Online-Plattformen. Die Moderation von Inhalten ist eine sehr...
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Es wird zunehmend schwieriger, den Fachkräftebedarf auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt zu decken. Das gilt auch für Familienunternehmen. Die Studie untersucht die Personalarbeit von Familienunternehmen anhand von Karrierebereichen und Stellenanzeigen und zeigt Unterschiede zu...
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Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical Tullock Challenges. The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...
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The disclosure requirements for firms issuing equity on German crowdinvestingplatforms are quite lax at the moment. This paper states that this loose requirement policy is not optimal in the presence of competition among platforms. First, a simple three-staged theoretical model is derived to...
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