Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Mobile apps have transformed how we live, work and connect – but at what cost? This book examines the immense power Apple and Google wield over society, arising from their control of app stores as well as mobile operating systems and...

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

Digitale Plattformen und Geschäftsmodelle stellen ein Kernelement der heutigen Internetökonomie dar. Mit der Entwicklung von großen Internetkonzernen wird das Internet zunehmend zentralistischer. Endanwender werden dabei immer stärker in die Ökosysteme einzelner großer Anbieter eingebunden...

How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source software, an unpriced commodity in...

In diesem Beitrag werden Entwicklungen des digitalen Zeitalters wie Musik-Streaming, Betriebssysteme und Apps sowie soziale Netzwerke mit ökonomischen Modellen erklärt. Die teilweise sehr mathematischen Modelle aus der Industrie- und der Netzwerkökonomik werden aber nicht formal dargestellt....

Different mobile operating system or shopping app versions enable different functionality and information flow, thus creating various mobile shopping environments. In general, up-to-date versions provide better information flows and richer functionality. However, mobile operating systems and...