The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

Martin Peitz is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. His research focuses on industrial organization, regulation, and microeconomics. Joel Waldfogel is Professor and Frederick R. Kappel Chair in Applied Economics at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His main research interests are industrial organization and law and economics.

Table of Contents ; Part I: Infrastructure, Standards, and Platforms ; 1. Internet Infrastructure (Shane Greenstein) ; 2. Compatibility and Standardization (Joe Farrell and Tim Simcoe) ; 3. Software Platforms (Andrei Hagiu) ; 4. Videogame Platforms (Robin Lee) ; 5. Electronic Payment Systems (Wilko Bolt and Sujit "Bob" Chakravorti) ; 6. Mobile Telephony (Steffen Hoernig and Tommaso Valletti) ; 7. Two-sided B2B platforms (Bruno Jullien) ; Part II: The Transformation of Selling ; 8. Online-Offline Competition (Ethan Lieber and Chad Syverson) ; 9. Price Dispersion and Price Search Engines (Jose-Luis Moraga and Matthijs Wildenbeest) ; 10. Price Discrimination in the Digital Economy (Drew Fudenberg and Miguel Villas-Boas) ; 11. Bundling Information Goods (Jay Pil Choi) ; 12. Internet Auctions (Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels, and Abdolkarim Sadrieh) ; 13. Reputation on the Internet (Luis Cabral) ; 14. Advertising on the Internet (Simon Anderson) ; Part III: User Generated Content ; 15. User Generated Content (Lian Jian and Jeff MacKie Mason) ; 16. Social Networking on the Web (Sanjeev Goyal) ; 17. The Economics of Open Source (Justin Johnson) ; Part IV: Threats Arising from Digitization and the Internet ; 18. Digital Piracy: Theory (Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz) ; 19. Digital Piracy: Empirics (Joel Waldfogel) ; 20. Privacy (Alessandro Acquisti) ; 21. Internet Security (Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore)