The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy

The economic analysis of the digital economy has been a rapidly developing research area for more than a decade. Through authoritative examination by leading scholars, this Handbook takes a closer look at particular industries, business practices, and policy issues associated with the digital industry.

Table of Contents ; Part I: Infrastructure, Standards, and Platforms ; 1. Internet Infrastructure (Shane Greenstein) ; 2. Compatibility and Standardization (Joe Farrell and Tim Simcoe) ; 3. Software Platforms (Andrei Hagiu) ; 4. Videogame Platforms (Robin Lee) ; 5. Electronic Payment Systems (Wilko Bolt and Sujit "Bob" Chakravorti) ; 6. Mobile Telephony (Steffen Hoernig and Tommaso Valletti) ; 7. Two-sided B2B platforms (Bruno Jullien) ; Part II: The Transformation of Selling ; 8. Online-Offline Competition (Ethan Lieber and Chad Syverson) ; 9. Price Dispersion and Price Search Engines (Jose-Luis Moraga and Matthijs Wildenbeest) ; 10. Price Discrimination in the Digital Economy (Drew Fudenberg and Miguel Villas-Boas) ; 11. Bundling Information Goods (Jay Pil Choi) ; 12. Internet Auctions (Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels, and Abdolkarim Sadrieh) ; 13. Reputation on the Internet (Luis Cabral) ; 14. Advertising on the Internet (Simon Anderson) ; Part III: User Generated Content ; 15. User Generated Content (Lian Jian and Jeff MacKie Mason) ; 16. Social Networking on the Web (Sanjeev Goyal) ; 17. The Economics of Open Source (Justin Johnson) ; Part IV: Threats Arising from Digitization and the Internet ; 18. Digital Piracy: Theory (Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz) ; 19. Digital Piracy: Empirics (Joel Waldfogel) ; 20. Privacy (Alessandro Acquisti) ; 21. Internet Security (Ross Anderson and Tyler Moore)