Understanding the implications of digital platform strategies on user welfare has become a crucial issue for policy makers and economists alike. In payments, distributed ledger technologies such as the blockchain have introduced new models of platform governance in the form of vertically...

Terror kills, inciting words can kill, but what about online platforms? In recent years, social networks have turned into a new arena for incitement. Terror organizations operate active accounts on social networks. They incite, recruit, and plan terror attacks by using online platforms. These...

Few issues have aroused more interest of late than the role of “platforms” in the economy. The Supreme Court has recently made the what is likely to be the first of many pronouncements on antitrust analysis of platforms, and major platform firms that dominate the economy – Google, Amazon,...