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...

PartI: Theory -- Chapter1: Agent-based Computational Economics and Industrial Organization Theory -- Chapter2: Towards a big-data based economy -- Chapter3: Real worlds: simulating non-standard rationality in microeconomics -- Chapter4: The many faces of crowdfunding: a brief classification of...

This book presents the effects of integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) and economic processes in macroeconomic dynamics, finance, marketing, industrial policies, and in government economic strategy. The text explores modeling and applications in these fields and also...