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Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy » (New Edition)

Book cover image of Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy by Gerhard Illing

Authors: Gerhard Illing (Editor), Martin Peitz
ISBN-13: 9780262090414, ISBN-10: 0262090414
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MIT Press
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Gerhard Illing

Gerhard Illing is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is the coeditor of Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2004).

Martin Peitz is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, Germany.

Book Synopsis

Theoretical and factual studies of ways that the rapidly evolving digital economy has changed the structure of different industries, focusing on the software and music industries.

1	Industrial organization and the digital economy	1
2	Software patents	11
3	Software platforms	31
4	Digital music	71
5	Economists examine file sharing and music sales	145
6	Versioning information goods	175
7	Preannouncing information goods	207
8	Copyright enforcement in the digital era	229
9	Diffusion of electronic commerce	241
10	Two-sided markets and electronic intermediaries	273