Professor Jan Krämer

The DFG Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" brought together researchers from all over the world in Passau to discuss one topic: the power of digital platforms. With videos

Professor Donald Lange from Arizona State University is currently conducting research as a Mercator Fellow at the DFG Research Training Group 2720 "Digital Platform Ecosystems" at the University of Passau.

Interdisciplinary, international, innovative: In their How-to-Wiwi podcast, Professor Jan Krämer and Professor Andreas König explain what distinguishes doctoral studies in the new DFG Research Training Group from other qualification concepts.

The Research Training Group "Digital Platform Ecosystems" will be the University’s pivotal hub for leading-edge, international, and interdisciplinary research and advanced academic qualifications around a central phenomenon of the digital economy.

#PassauDPE keynote series: How does value creation work in the era of platform giants such as Facebook and Google? Professor Jan Krämer announces his next guest Professor Hemant Bhargava from the University of California, Davis.

#PassauDPE-keynote-series: Professor Jan Krämer announces his guest Professor Jens Prüfer from Tilburg University, who studies the regulation of data-driven platform markets and advises the European Commission on the online platform economy.

In the distinguished keynote series 'Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE)', internationally outstanding researchers have presented their latest findings.

The coronavirus crisis is affecting everyone, but digital platforms such as Airbnb are still managing to cope better than traditional business areas. Why is this? We asked researchers at our University who are working on the sharing economy.

The internet giants need smart regulation, says Passau business information specialist Professor Jan Krämer. He and his team, including doctoral student Janina Hofmann, are developing models for this.

Professor Jan Krämer examines market power in the digital platform economy. His analyses show that users may not be the most vulnerable.

Social Logins, Fulfilment by Amazon, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages: A team of researchers at the University of Passau has applied game theory models to analyse services offered by large online platforms. What may sound good, might come at a price…

In the video interview, Dr. Daniel Schnurr, information systems scholar at the University of Passau, speaks about the fallout of the Facebook data scandal and about how users develop a sense of value for their data.

Michael Wohlfarth of the University of Passau shines an economic light on the right to data portability, which allows users to take their personal data with them. He arrives at a mixed verdict.

Researchers from Passau and Namur, Belgium, have investigated discriminatory practices of online platforms such as sponsored search results and paid prominence. The research was commissioned by Brussels-based think tank CERRE.

The principal of net neturality can in some cases be a bad thing, explains Professor Krämer in our video-interview. The researcher has published an influential paper on net neutrality.

Dr. Daniel Schnurr heads the Research Group Data Policies, which is concerned with the future of the data. In this video, he talks about the value of this data and how users can exercise control.