New digital methods are currently enhancing the historian’s toolbox fundamentally. This thematic issue is a collection of papers discussing case studies in the fields of digitization, optical character recognition, distant reading, text mining, network analysis, and historical geographical...

The paper focuses on the analysis of the computerization of public administration in the Czech Republic in the context of the implementation and operation of data mailboxes, which have been an integral and very important part of e-Government in that country since 2009. A data mailbox has been...

How do administrative burdens influence enrollment in different welfare programs? Who is screened out at a given stage? This paper studies the impacts of increased administrative burdens associated with the automation of welfare caseworker assistance, leveraging a unique natural experiment in...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a key component in the field of antitrust, as it is utilized to analyze vast quantities of data with the aim of detecting indications of unjust business practices. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of the issue of algorithmic biases in computational...

The advent of quantum computation and quantum information theory and the ever increasing empirical possibilities of translating these theories into real physical systems has raised expectations in the private and public sectors. Quantum computers process information using the laws of quantum...

The benefits of regulation should exceed the cost of regulating. This paper investigates the impact of widespread general-purpose computing on the cost of enforcing of regulations on generative artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralized finance (DeFi). We present a simple model illustrating...