Digitalisation has opened up new opportunities for the dissemination of information. That is why many academic journals have started introducing online services since the early 1990s. Previous studies suggest that online availability and free access to articles are positively connected to the...

Interoperability has become a buzzword in European policy debates on the future of the digital economy. In its Digital Agenda, the EU Commission has identified a lack of interoperability as one of the significant obstacles for the thriving of the digital economy. The EU Commission and a number...

Psycho-sociological and legal aspects of online child sexual abuse such as criminalization, offender profiling, and rehabilitation have been thoroughly studied in the literature. The economics of the issue may appear relatively insignificant at first sight, considering the devastating effects on...

Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called into question on both empirical and theoretical grounds, and a spate of recent findings suggest...

In diesem Jahr steht in Deutschland die Novellierung des Gesetzes gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen (GWB) an. Das Reformvorhaben hat eine intensive Debatte um die Neuorientierung der Wettbewerbspolitik in digitalen Märkten entfacht. Während es einen Konsens gibt, dass der existierende...

In the transition periods between new technologies, marked setbacks in productivity growth are possible. Whereas new private goods are not fully visible in national accounts, often only their negative substitution effects turn up. If this is a market phenomenon, it should be reflected in weaker...

The increasing digitisation necessitates amendments to copyright protection. Both the European Parliament and the European Commission have now presented proposals addressing this issue. This is necessary because the way in which creative goods are produced and distributed has been changed...

Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung macht Anpassungen des Urheberschutzes erforderlich. Sowohl das Europäische Parlament als auch die Europäische Kommission haben dazu inzwischen Vorschläge vorgelegt. Hintergrund ist, dass die Art, wie kreative Güter produziert und verbreitet werden, durch...

Introduction -- Defining services -- The service economy -- Digital services -- Services for public interest -- The politics of service design -- Designing for services -- Getting started in the service design process -- Research and analysis -- Generating service design concepts -- Prototyping,...

Intro -- The Design Thinking Playbook -- Content -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Understand Design Thinking -- 1.1 What needs are addressed in the Playbook? -- 1.2 Why is process awareness key? -- 1.3 How to get a good problem statement -- 1.4 How to discover user needs -- 1.5 How to build...