On October 28, 2024, Nick Economides of the Stern School of Business of New York University joned us for his talk, “Interoperability, Antitrust Remedy or Regulatory Rule.”
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I discuss the imposition of interoperability as an ex post antitrust remedy to monopolization of digital platforms in the presence of network effects as well as an ex ante regulatory rule. I evaluate these from the point of view of the users, platform competition, platform profitability, and innovation.
Nicholas Economides is a Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business of New York University and Founder and Executive Director of the NET Institute. He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, antitrust, and public policy.
His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks, platforms, telecommunications and the Internet, antitrust, banking and finance, computers, and information, the economics of technical compatibility and standardization, industrial organization, the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems, application of public policy to network industries, strategic analysis of markets, security and privacy, and law and economics.
He has published over one hundred articles in top academic journals in the areas of networks, telecommunications, oligopoly, antitrust, product positioning, and on liquidity and the organization of financial markets and exchanges. He holds a Ph.D. and a M.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a B.Sc. (First Class Honors) in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics. He has previously taught at Columbia University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. He has advised or is currently advising the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the governments of Canada, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, and Portugal, the Attorneys General of New York and Texas, major telecommunications and high technology companies, a number of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of Greece, and major Financial Exchanges. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
The complete C.V. of Prof. Nicholas Economides is available here.