Geschäftsmodelle der digitalen Ökonomie basieren auf dem Angebot von Inhalten und Diensten, die von den Kunden teilweise mit personenbezogenen Informationen bezahlt werden. Vorteile entstehen, weil dies zu einer effizienteren Bereitstellung von Gütern und Dienstleistungen führen kann....

Increasing horizontal as well as vertical transparency in oligopolistic markets can be advantageous for consumers, due to reduced search costs. However, market transparency can also affect incentives to deviate from collusive agreements and the punishment by rival firms in the market. Using a...

This study aims at identifying guests’ willingness to pay for characteristics of listings on Airbnb, putting a particular emphasis on trust-building information provided by the platform. In order to do so, a hedonic regression model is applied to an extensive dataset that was gathered in 2017...

Der aus digitalen Prozessdaten der Lkw-Mauterhebung berechnete Lkw-Maut-Fahrleistungsindex liefert frühzeitig Anhaltspunkte zur Entwicklung der Industrieproduktion in Deutschland. Während der Coronakrise wird der Index arbeitstäglich aktualisiert, um möglichst kurzfristige Informationen zu...

Virtually each seasonal adjustment software includes an ensemble of seasonality tests for assessing whether a given time series is in fact a candidate for seasonal adjustment. However, such tests are certain to produce either the same resultor conflicting results, raising the question if there...

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the need for timely and granular information to assess the state of the economy in real time. Weekly and daily indices have been constructed using higher frequency data to address this need. Yet the seasonal and calendar adjustment of the underlying time...

Currently, the methods used by producers of official statistics do not facilitate the seasonal and calendar adjustment of daily time series, even though an increasing number of series with daily observations are available. The aim of this paper is the development of a procedure to estimate and...