Digital platforms have grown rapidly, overcoming many market inefficiencies by facilitating direct interactions between consumers and producers, eliminating brokers, agents, and distributors. Consumers now have a vast selection and producers can now efficiently reach huge markets. But the...

Information systems generate detailed "trace" data about what individuals do and when they do it. Trace data may affect the resolution of lawsuits by, for example, changing the time needed for legal discovery. Trace data might speed resolution by clarifying what events happened when, or they...