Platform Strategy translates the complex management and economic models behind commercial platforms such as Uber, airbnb, Etsy and eBay into a practical guide for business. Platform-powered businesses have grown exponentially in the last ten years and replaced many traditional firms. Developing...

In its decades-long effort to assure the safety, efficacy, and security of medicines and other products, the Food and Drug Administration has struggled with issues of funding, proper associations with industry, and the balance between consumer choice and consumer protection. Today, these...

Biographical note: Andrew W. Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A. Craig MacKinlay is Joseph P. Wargrove Professor of Finance at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. With John Y. Campbell, they...

Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental...

Die wachsende Verbreitung von FuE-Kooperationen zwischen konkurrierenden Unternehmen führt zu der Frage, ob, und wenn ja, unter welchen Bedingungen diese Kooperationen den Wettbewerb beschränken. Die Analyse der möglichen Wohlfahrtseffekte, die von FuE-Kooperationen ausgehen, zeigt, daß sie...

In demystifying the concept of market-like instruments, this study explains how to make better use of market-like instruments in fisheries management by identifying practical steps that can be taken to further their use. The findings of the study are based on a survey of the use of market-like...