Summary of Research Interests

My current research interests are primarily in the economics of information systems and the IT and network industries. This research highlights distinctive characteristics of information and network goods, and their impact on specific elements of operations, marketing, and competitive strategy. Specific topics in my recent publications include sponsored search in recommenders and search engines, stockout compensation practices, performance-based pricing for IT goods, product versioning, pricing strategies for grid computing, and information structures in contract design.

Some other topics of interest:

* my research focus in the early 1990s was in the decision technologies, covering principles, formal languages, and computer-based tools for model-based decision making.

* my research focus in the mid-late 1990s was on electronic markets of Web-enabled decision technologies, developing intermediation software to facilitate the deployment and use of "anytime, anywhere" decision technologies.