Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy.

• Position: Bureau Books

Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy, edited by Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker, is upcoming from the University of Chicago Press.

As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has become increasingly digital. But while the effects of digital technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity--from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments determine policy--is less well understood.

Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy explores the economic impact of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising new area of research.

The Internet is one of the key drivers of growth in digital communication, and the first set of chapters discusses basic supply-and-demand factors...