In einer repräsentativen Unternehmensumfrage im Rahmen des IW-Zukunftspanels unter rund 900 deutschen Firmen aus den Bereichen Industrie und industrienahe Dienstleistungen im März und April 2024 geben rund 350 der befragten Firmen an, chinesische Wettbewerber in ihren Absatzmärkten zu haben....

The rapid development of technology and the digital economy has enabled every individual as a consumer to share their opinions with other users through reviews. Online reviews, as an integral part of the digital economy, are among the key factors that influence consumer behavior and purchase...

The rapid development of technology and the digital economy has enabled every individual as a consumer to share their opinions with other users through reviews. Online reviews, as an integral part of the digital economy, are among the key factors that influence consumer behavior and purchase...

We provide a brief history of administering financial literacy questions in probability-based Internet panels. After financial literacy questions were asked in the Centerpanel in the Netherlands and the RAND American Life Panel, the Understanding America Study (UAS) has been administering 14...

Resource scarcity, the effects of climate change, food insecurity, and health issues related to dietary choices have prompted policymakers to develop new strategies to encourage populations to opt for healthy and sustainable (HS) diets. In this context, nudging strategies are promising tools to...

Um das seit Januar 2022 geltende Verbot des Kükentötens einzuhalten, schlägt das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft drei Alternativen vor, darunter das Ausbrüten von Zweinutzungshühnern. Neben züchterischen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen, Zweinutzungstiere in der...

Die Forschung zu den Effekten von Nachhaltigkeitsawards und ihrem Potenzial zu einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation beizutragen stellt aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht eine Nische dar. Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden Vielzahl an Awards in der Praxis, die sich an Unternehmen richten, multiplen...

Failure to switch service provider is viewed as leaving money on the table. While psychological hassle and switching costs are often invoked to explain the observed inertia, there is little empirical research that directly measures barriers to switching in retail finance markets. This study uses...

Aktuelle Forschungsstudien betrachten im Kontext von Suffizienz und Marketing aktuell vor allem den Einsatz in Unternehmen selbst und weniger die Wirkung von Marketingmaßnahmen auf die Konsumenten. So gibt es etwa erste Studien dazu warum und wie kommerzielles Marketing suffizienzfördernden...

Die Forschung zu den Effekten von Nachhaltigkeitsawards und ihrem Potenzial zu einer Nachhaltigkeitstransformation beizutragen stellt aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht eine Nische dar. Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden Vielzahl an Awards in der Praxis, die sich an Unternehmen richten, multiplen...

Failure to switch service provider is viewed as leaving money on the table. While psychological hassle and switching costs are often invoked to explain the observed inertia, there is little empirical research that directly measures barriers to switching in retail finance markets. This study uses...

Um das seit Januar 2022 geltende Verbot des Kükentötens einzuhalten, schlägt das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft drei Alternativen vor, darunter das Ausbrüten von Zweinutzungshühnern. Neben züchterischen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen, Zweinutzungstiere in der...

Using a vignette-based survey experiment on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, we measure how people’s assessments of the fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the races of the parties involved. Regardless of their...

Concerns about fraud in welfare programs are common arguments worldwide against such programs. We conducted a survey experiment with over 28,000 welfare program administrators and over 19,000 beneficiaries in Indonesia to elicit the ‘marginal disutility from corruption,’ i.e., the...

Purpose Cannabis use continues to increase worldwide, and a number of nation states are changing their cannabis policies. Policy changes require research into key populations, namely, people who use cannabis. This study aims to examine sociodemographic differences of young Finns who reported...

In Anbetracht der gegenwärtigen dynamischen, schnelllebigen Welt, welche durch vielfältige Einflüsse, wie die Globalisierung, den technologischen Fortschritt sowie die COVID-19-Pandemie beeinflusst wird sowie die daraus hervorgehenden zunehmenden Belastungen und Anforderungen, erfährt die...

We elicited over a million stated preference choices over 126 dimensions or "aspects" of well-being from a sample of 3,358 respondents on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Our surveys also collected self-reported well-being (SWB) questions about respondents' current levels of the aspects of...

Background: Food loss management (FLM), which is discussed at length in the literature, lacks a scientific basis on which to determine the current engagement of actors in the food value chain and what is relevant to derive appropriate measures according to the circumstances in the organisations...

Mit Hilfe der Daten der Erwerbspersonenbefragung der Hans-Böckler-Stif-tung, der zweiten und der fünften Erhebungswelle eines Online-Access- Panels (Juni 2020 und Juli 2021) mit jeweils mehr als 5.000 befragten Er-werbstätigen (zur Befragungsmethode siehe Hövermann 2020a, 2020b; Kantar 2021),...

We conducted two waves of quantitative online surveys and qualitative interviews of Ukrainian refugees in Germany. We asked whether they plan to stay in Germany and whether they are already employed or plan to search for employment, as well as the factors that determine these. We report the...

Background: Food loss management (FLM), which is discussed at length in the literature, lacks a scientific basis on which to determine the current engagement of actors in the food value chain and what is relevant to derive appropriate measures according to the circumstances in the organisations...

A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mode, and (3) onliners in face-to-face mode. We find...

A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mode, and (3) onliners in face-to-face mode. We find...

A general concern with the representativeness of online surveys is that they exclude the "offline" population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with (1) onliners in web mode, (2) offliners in face-to-face mode, and (3) onliners in face-to-face mode. We find...