Project Details
Transparency and product choice in Digital Environments (A05)
Subject Area
Economic Policy, Applied Economics
Management and Marketing
Statistics and Econometrics
Management and Marketing
Statistics and Econometrics
Term
since 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 280092119
The project studies the impact of transparency on consumer decisions. Raising the regulatory requirements of transparency helps consumers to avoid biases and to make more informed choices, which needs to be quantified and traded off against the regulation’s cost. The project continues its mix of empirical methods but shifts its focus towards digital environments. In them, the current regulatory debate is trying to catch up with dynamically changing markets, e.g., via the planned European AI Act. The research program is structured into three parts: (i) transparency in digital recommendations, (ii) transparency and platform monetization, and (iii) transparency of data use and data sources.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
Subproject of
TRR 190:
Rationality and Competition: The Economic Performance of Individuals and Firms
Applicant Institution
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München