National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a paucity of historical data making limiting long-run comparisons with other data. We construct a new...

The importance of digital platforms and related data-driven business models is ever increasing and poses challenges for the workability of competition in the respective markets (tendencies towards dominant platforms, paying-with-data instead of traditional money, privacy concerns, etc.). Due to...

Sachstandsanalyse zur Zukunft deutscher Unternehmen in der "Industrie 4.0" (Integration webbasierter Geschäftsmodelle und industrieller Produktion einschliesslich Robotik). Nötig ist eine langfristig angelegte politische Steuerung und digitale Infrastrukturförderung auf nationaler und...