11:00 - 12:00
Th-STS12
Chair:
Samuel Stolton
Daily updated website analysis on the reaction of companies to the Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
Jan Kinne, (Email) 1, 2, David Lenz, (Email) 1, 3, Peter Winker, (Email) 3, Georg Licht, (Email) 2, Julian Dörr, (Email) 2
1 istari.ai UG
2 ZEW Centre for European Economic Research
3 University of Giessen

We analyse the websites of 1.1 million German companies twice a week for references of the word "Coronavirus" and corresponding synonyms. The identified text passages are then evaluated using AI text analysis models to determine the context of the references. This procedure allows us to assess the impact of the corona pandemic on companies in Germany in a timely and comprehensive manner