Nicholas Economides

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 has taught previously at Columbia University, Stanford University, and UC Berkeley. He is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, antitrust, and public policy. His fields of specialization and research include antitrust, the economics of platforms and networks, telecommunications and the Internet, 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 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. The Economist ranked his web site on the economics of networks as fourth in the world in economics.