La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: http://ssrn.com/abstract=4040930.This paper addresses a research agenda of the regulatory challenges of digital financial platforms. After approaching the nature of digital financial platforms, the decentralized finances that arise...

The online platform political economy — that is, the interrelationship of economic and political power in the exchange of online services for personal information — has endowed platforms with overwhelming power to determine consumers' information privacy. Scholarship on information privacy...

Platforms have emerged as a new kind of regulatory object over a short period of time. There is accelerating global regulatory competition to conceptualise and govern online platforms in response to social, economic and political discontent – articulated in terms such as ‘fake news’,...

P2P file-sharing dominated the illegal online uses of copyrighted materials since its appearance in 1999. In 2012, I have concluded my research on this field in a monograph. Six years passed by and it is time to double-check what foreseeable consequences came through and how some other...

This paper focuses on one particular form of intermediary which has emerged as a core component of the digital economy: platforms. Platforms are the beating heart of the digital world, bringing together those who provide and those who acquire: on social media, people share their lives with their...

Present economy and society are under a “digital revolution”. Digital platforms connect service and product suppliers to recipients all around the world creating new businesses and changing business models in place. Old-fashioned informal gig-economy and sharing practices by using the new...

Platforms govern users, and the way that platforms govern matters. In this paper, I propose that the legitimacy of governance of users by platforms should be evaluated against the values of the rule of law. In particular, I suggest that we should care deeply about the extent to which private...