What has your Big Data-based research brought to light? What new methods for exploiting this new resource for research have you used or developed? Where do you see new fields of research being made possible by adding Big Data to the toolbox? CESifo and the ifo Institute are inviting submissions...

What data firms collect, how they use them, and whether they have tools in place that facilitate data driven decision making, including machine learning and AI based methods, is at the core of modern productivity studies. As is the question of what facilitates or hinders adoption of these modern...

Das Ziel des Workshops besteht darin, Forschenden der Ökonomie die Möglichkeit zu geben, sich zu neuen Datentypen und Entwicklungen der Datennutzung auszutauschen. Das umfasst folgende Aspekte: - Big-Data-Analysen: Nutzung unstrukturierter Daten – aus: Internet (Stichwort: Webscraping),...

Data has always been a key tool in economics research. But Big Data goes beyond being a mere tool: it is opening new fields of research and also helping to gain fresh insights that were previously out of reach. This workshop will review how Big Data is being used by young scholars, what new...

The first day will provide an overview on the global economy. Special regional contributions will be presented in an initial session: World, USA, Asia,Europe. The second session will be dedicated to investigating changes in the financial markets and their potential impact on the global economy -...