Mainstream logic supports the idea that platforms bring large benefits to firms, especially smaller ones, by opening up access to a broader set of consumers and making firms' products easier to find. However, this argument mostly applies to transaction platforms that match consumer preferences...

Innovationen bilden die Grundlage für technischen Fortschritt und haben einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Volkswirtschaften. Positive Externalitäten sowie das inhärente Risiko von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) führen jedoch dazu, dass...

Many digital platform host content produced by independent creators and rely on advertising as their primary source of revenues. They commonly use partnership programs to put into place incentives for creators to produce high-quality content by sharing part of the advertising revenue with them....

Gender stereotypes pose an important hurdle on the way to gender equality. It is difficult to quantify the problem, though, as stereotypical beliefs are often subconscious or not openly expressed. User-generated content (UGC) opens up novel opportunities to overcome such challenges, as the...

Do news outlets push overly positive or negative attitudes to migration in their coverage, or do they try to maintain a neutral and holistic perspective on the topic? To study media slant in the context of migration, we collect and code migration-related pictures that news outlets publish and...

Research and Development (R&D) is crucial to secure continued economic growth and prosperity. Private sector investments in R&D are typically too low, which constitutes a market failure. Governments use R&D tax credit schemes to compensate for this failure. Input-based tax credit schemes and...

Do news outlets push overly positive or negative attitudes to migration in their coverage, or do they try to maintain a neutral and holistic perspective on the topic? To study media slant in the context of migration, we collect and code migration-related pictures that news outlets publish and -...

Innovationen bilden die Grundlage für technischen Fortschritt und haben einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Volkswirtschaften. Positive Externalitäten sowie das inhärente Risiko von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) führen jedoch dazu, dass...

Innovationen bilden die Grundlage für technischen Fortschritt und haben einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Volkswirtschaften. Positive Externalitäten sowie das inhärente Risiko von Investitionen in Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) führen jedoch dazu, dass...

We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...