"This book was finalized while countries around the world were still confronting a global public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many came to rely on digital services as an infrastructure for social interaction and professional endeavors, including academic and educational work....

Digitisation has significantly impacted international trade. This book explains the impact of digitisation on trade in services, the ensuing concept of 'digital services' and the different types of trade barriers these services face. This book establishes that the legal framework that applies to...

This chapter introduces the KontoSensor , a digital service offered by Deutsche Bank since September 2018, as an example of data processing using predictive analytics. We present the motivation behind this digital service, the use cases and methods currently implemented, the way they have been...

Vor dem Hintergrund der hohen Komplexität der Finanzierung von Verkehrsinfrastruktur und -angeboten hat das Umweltbundesamt das Forschungsvorhaben "Ökonomischer Vergleich der Verkehrsträger" an Ernst Basler + Partner AG (Zürich), das Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin)...

The cost of storing and processing vast quantities of digital data has dropped significantly in recent years. Cloud computing services, such as those provided by Amazon, have commodified data processing so that applications that once required supercomputers are now available to anyone with an...