The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the … emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two … digital goods and markets. In Germany, national competition law was amended in 2017 in order to accommodate for digitization …

Using Google search activity data can help detect, in real time and at high frequency, a wide spectrum of breaking … socio-economic trends around the world. This wealth of data is the result of an ongoing and ever more pervasive digitization … of information. Search activity data stand in contrast to more traditional economic measurement approaches, which are …

-level fixed effects model and to different search terms. Joint analysis by cross-correlation function and Granger non …

There are over 3 billion searches globally on Google every day. This report examines whether Google search queries can … information contained in Google search queries, the report compares a simple predictive model of unemployment to a model that … are performed. Compared to a simple benchmark, Google search queries improve the prediction of the present by 10 …

predicts the unemployment rate in the EU-28 countries using Google search data. This document is subject to updates as the …