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Nicholas Economides
Nicholas Economides is a Professor of Economics at New York University. He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, electronic commerce, public policy, and financial markets microstructure. His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks, especially of telecommunications, computers, and information, the economics of technical compatibility and standardization, industrial organization, the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems, antitrust, application of public policy to network industries, strategic analysis of markets and law and economics.
Prof. Economides has published over 100 articles in top academic journals in the areas of networks, telecommunications, oligopoly, antitrust, product positioning, and on the liquidity and the organization of financial markets and exchanges. He holds a PhD and a MA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a BSc (First Class Honors) in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics. He has previously taught at Columbia University (1981-1988) and at Stanford University (1988-1990). He is editor of the Information Economics and Policy, Netnomics, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, the Journal of Financial Transformation, Journal of Network Industries, on the Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Network, editor of Economics of Networks Abstracts by SSRN, and past editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. His web site on the Economics of Networks at has been ranked as one of the top four economics sites worldwide by The Economist magazine.
Prof. Economides is Executive Director of the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org, a world-wide focal point for research on the economics of network and high technology industries. He is advisor to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the governments of Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, and Portugal, the Attorney General of New York State, major telecommunications corporations, 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. He has commented extensively in broadcast and in print on high technology, antitrust, and public policy issues. A complete CV is available at http://www.stern.nyu.edu/networks/cvnoref.html.