Following the Internet's widespread adoption, much economic work has studied ‘online platforms': firms that mainly interact with consumers in cyberspace. This article surveys such work, focusing on the ways in which traditional economic models have been adapted to incorporate novel aspects...

The topic of “digital transformation” is an ever-present factor for companies. Business models and all processes and systems in a company involve digitalisation. This also inevitably leads to consequences for the monitoring work carried out by Supervisory Boards in a two tier corporate...

The rise and success of digital platforms (such as Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, Expedia, Ebay, and Uber) rely, to a large extent, on their ability to address two major issues. First, to effectively facilitate transactions, platforms need to resolve the problem of trust in the implicit or explicit...

Chapter 1. Introduction to the Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Polarization (Israr Qureshi, Babita Bhatt, Samrat Gupta and Amit Anand Tiwari) -- Part I: Techniques and Methods -- Chapter 2. A Schelling-opinion model based on integration of opinion formation with residential...