Durable identification and access to datasets, especially to research datasets, become increasingly important. This is mainly driven by the explosive dataset growth in the current age. Although the Internet was originally founded as a large-scale end-to-end communication platform, in the current...

This paper analyzes the relationship between firms' use of big data analytics and their innovative performance in terms of product innovations. Since big data technologies provide new data information practices, they create novel decision-making possibilities, which are widely believed to...

We study platform markets in which the information about users' preferences is dispersed. First, we show how the dispersion of information introduces idiosyncratic uncertainty about participation decisions and how the latter shapes the elasticity of the demands and the equilibrium prices. We...