IInd ICT Conference Munich on Management and Economics of ICT 2012
The international conference on "Management and Economics of ICT" took place in Munich from 29 February until 2 March, 2012. Out of the 141 submitted papers from 39 countries, there were 36 presentations in 9 selected sessions at the conference. We would like to thank all 121 participants for the active participation and many interesting discussions, especially the two keynote speakers and the scientific committee. We hope to continue the excellent scientific exchange in the future and to read many good publications in the special issue of the "International Journal of Industrial Organization".
New technologies widely spread throughout the economy. Information goods differ substantially from traditional goods, because marginal production cost is negligible and network externalities and complementarities exist. This has implications for firms and customers, market structures, public policy and economic growth. The goal of the conference was to bring together scholars and practitioners who approach the question of the interdependencies between information and communication technologies (ICTs), innovation, strategy, regulation and growth from different angles. We invited papers on the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics:
Network Economics, Two-Sided Markets, E-Commerce, Price Discrimination, Versioning, Bundling, Dynamic Pricing, Advertising, Media and Online Content, Telecommunications, Net Neutrality, Regulation and Public Policy, Diffusion and Adoption of Knowledge and Innovations, Patents, Intellectual Property, Productivity and Growth at the Micro and Macro Level, Software and Internet Industries, ICT and Organizational Change, Outsourcing, Green ICT.
The keynote speakers Ritu Agarwal (University of Maryland) and Neil Gandal (University of Tel Aviv) gave fascinating presentations, and on the first conference day there was a policy panel bringing together practitioners, researchers and policy makers.
The members of the scientific committee of the conference were Mirco Draca (LSE/CEP), J.P. Eggers (NYU Stern), Oliver Falck (Ifo Institute), Marco Giarratana (Bocconi University), Michał Grajek (ESMT), Hanna Halaburda (Harvard), Steffen Hörnig (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Tobias Kretschmer (LMU/Ifo Institute), Katja Seim (Wharton), Thomas Strobel (Ifo Institute), Catherine Tucker (MIT Sloan), Patrick Waelbroeck (TELECOM ParisTech) and Christine Zulehner (University of Vienna).
We are very pleased to announce that the International Journal of Industrial Organization will publish a special issue edited by Pai-Ling Yin (MIT Sloan) and Tobias Kretschmer (LMU/ifo Institute) on the topic following the conference. The special issue is open to papers presented at the conference as well as papers not presented at the conference.
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