The purpose of this paper is to investigate how different types of strategic interactions between two firms affect their optimal pricing and private copy protection levels of digital products. In our model, the firms do not directly interact with each other in terms of prices, but they become...

Digital platforms are organized by some of the world’s largest firms to serve multiple inter-connected markets. Facebook is a giant firm that organizes a marketplace, and we use it as an example to illustrate why information privacy should be analyzed as a major dimension of platform...

Purpose - this paper aims to analyse the business efficiency of the Alibaba platform at the beginning and during the COVID-19 crisis. Methodology/Design - The research is based on the official financial reports of the platform as well as on the reports of other specialized agencies that monitor...

This paper outlines the modern industrial organization theory of media markets including competition policy implications. After recapturing fundamentals of industrial organization theory in a non-technical way, the state of the art of (i) modern platform economics, (ii) the economics of the...

The paper analyses the economics behind algorithmic search and recommender services, based upon personalized user data. Such services play a paramount role for online services such as marketplaces (e.g. Amazon), audio streaming (e.g. Spotify), video streaming (e.g. Netflix, YouTube), app stores,...

Introduction: The Digital Glocalization Challenge -- Hollywood's Redefined Global Primacy in a Landscape Shaped by Streaming Platforms -- Scripted vs. Non-Scripted Entertainment for Global Audiences -- The Modus Operendi of the New Digital Platforms -- Conclusion: New Directions for the Global...

The Digital Economy and International Trade, authored by an eminent specialist in transnational commercial and private law, is a timely book exploring a developing and evolving area of law related to the role of the digital economy in international trade, making a direct call for the need to...