Jede Anonymität, auch gerade die im Netz (J. Kubeziel: ID-A 30/12), die einerseits dem Schutz der Bürgerrechte dient, kann für dunkle Zwecke genutzt werden. Dass es digitale Unterwelten gibt, in denen - ethisch betrachtet - allen menschlichen Abgründen und verbrecherischen Absichten in...

The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...

Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...

The study examines the relationship between tourism and social media from a cross section of 138 countries with data for the year 2012.The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. Two main findings are established. First, there is a...

The study assesses the relationship between terrorism and social media from a cross section of 148 countries with data for the year 2012. The empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares, Negative Binomial and Quantile regressions. The main finding is that there is a positive...

Global companies and organisations have to be increasingly fast-moving and flexible, in order to react to market changes as rapidly as possible. This places demands upon internal communication, as strategic decisions have to be communicated to the employees. This must be done quickly in order to...

Does watching more pirated streaming video mean spending less time watching non-pirated streaming video? This study measures whether, and how much, time spent watching pirated video crowds out time spent on streaming video apps. While prior studies have estimated the impact of piracy on sales...

Nowadays, almost all (relevant) firms have their own websites which they use to publish information about their products and services. Using the example of innovation in firms, we outline a framework for extracting information from firm websites using web scraping and data mining. For this...