The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

Scheufen Marc

External Publication 27. May 2024 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

This article intends to provide a framework to better understand the economic problems and legal challenges resulting from the transition of the European economy to a data economy.

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The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

External Publication 27. May 2024 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

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This article intends to provide a framework to better understand the economic problems and legal challenges resulting from the transition of the European economy to a data economy.

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We discuss some policy concerns surrounding the data economy, such as concentration in the data economy, anticompetitive business practices in the data economy, access to data and data sharing, data reliability, distributional effects of the data economy, and cybercrime. Moreover, we provide an overview of some important EU legal initiatives and reforms and clarify how the papers in this special issue contribute to assessing these initiatives from an economic point of view.

External Publication

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

External Publication 27. May 2024 Thomas Eger / Marc Scheufen in European Journal of Law and Economics

The Law and Economics of the Data Economy: Introduction to the Special Issue

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Data Utilisation and Data Sharing: The Potential and the Reality in German Companies

Companies that store their data extensively in digital form, process it in a structured manner and use it in a variety of ways can become particularly efficient members of the data economy.

IW-Trends No. 2 10. May 2024 Marc Scheufen

Obstacles to Data Sharing – An Outline of Recent Developments with Policy Recommendations

The increasing networking of production processes and the ability of artificial intelligence to analyse ever larger amounts of data offer enormous potential for the German economy. To exploit this potential fully, however, data must be shared.