The Rise of the New Network Industries: Regulating Digital Platforms

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Table of contents
Introduction
	Notes
Part I The Digitalization Dilemma  in the Network Industries
	Chapter 1 Digitalizing the Network Industries
		1.1 Network Industries
		1.2 Digitalization
		1.3 Smart Networks
		1.4 Challenges in Digitalizing Networks
		1.5 Disruption
		Notes
	Chapter 2 Platforms in Multi-Sided Markets
		2.1 Newspapers
		2.2 Payment Cards
		2.3 Videogame Consoles
		2.4 Multi-sided Markets and Network Effects
		2.5 Platforms
		Notes
	Chapter 3 Digital Platforms
		3.1 eBay, Amazon, and Marketplace Platforms
		3.2 Google and Searches
		3.3 Facebook and Social Networks
		3.4 Airbnb and the Sharing Economy
		3.5 Algorithmic Network Effects
		Notes
	Chapter 4 Disruption by Digital Platforms: Substitution and Platformization
		4.1 What Is Disruption?
		4.2 Napster and the Music Industry
		4.3 Google and the “Link Wars”
		4.4 Disruption by Substitution
		4.5 Disruption by “Platformization”
		Notes
	Chapter 5 Network Industries Disrupted by Platforms
		5.1 Substitution
		5.2 Platformization
		5.3 The Digitalization Dilemma
		5.4 The Role of Regulation
		Notes
Part II Platforms in the Communications Industries
	Chapter 6 Network Effects in Communications
		6.1 Network Effects at the Origins of Telephony in the US
		6.2 Network Effects and Regulation
		6.3 Digitalization and the End of the Telephone Monopoly
		6.4 The Internet: New and Larger Network Effects
		6.5 Deregulation and Fragmentation of the Market
		Notes
	Chapter 7 Email: Postal Networks are Substituted
		7.1 The (Originally) Glorious Days of Postal Services
		7.2 The Creation of Network Mail
		7.3 Hotmail Makes Email the Killer App on the Internet
		7.4 A Network on Top of Networks
		7.5 Substitution of Letter Mail
		Notes
	Chapter 8 Skype and WhatsApp: Telecom Carriers are Platformed
		8.1 Skype and Voice Over IP
		8.2 WhatsApp and OTTs
		8.3 Platforms and Communications Services
		8.4 Telecom Carriers Are Platformed
		8.5 IOS and Android: Apps Are Platformed
		Notes
	Chapter 9 YouTube: Traditional Media Substituted and Platformed
		9.1 YouTube and User-Generated Content Platforms
		9.2 Media Substituted by Platforms
		9.3 Media Platformed in the Display of Content
		9.4 Media Platformed in the Relationship with Advertisers
		9.5 Digital Platforms as Coordinators of the System
		Notes
	Chapter 10 The Regulatory Challenges Posed by Communications Platforms
		10.1 Level Playing Field
		10.2 Regulating Concentration
		10.3 Platform to Telecoms Relations
		10.4 Platform Neutrality
		10.5 General Interest
		Notes
Part III Platforms in the Transport Industries
	Chapter 11 Scale and Networks in Transportation
		11.1 The Adventure of Traveling
		11.2 Scale Up!
		11.3 Transport networks
		11.4 Legal Monopolies
		11.5 The Limits of Supply Side Economies of Scale
		11.6 From Supply to Demand Side Economies of Scale
		Notes
	Chapter 12 Amadeus, Sabre, and Air Transport
		12.1 Global Distribution Systems
		12.2 Conflicts in the Aviation Ecosystem
		12.3 The First Platform Regulation?
		Notes
	Chapter 13 Uber and Urban Mobility
		13.1 A Wild Ride
		13.2 “A Network Layer on Top of It”
		13.3 Regulatory Bumps
		13.4 Substitution of taxi
		Notes
	Chapter 14 BlaBlaCar and Long-Distance Mobility
		14.1 Carpooling Digital Platforms
		14.2 The Sharing Economy
		14.3 Substitution of Mass-Transit Services
		Notes
	Chapter 15 Mobility-as-a-Service: The Network of Networks
		15.1 What Is MaaS?
		15.2 Network Effects
		15.3 The Network of Networks
		15.4 The Race to Be the Network on Top
		Notes
	Chapter 16 Transport Providers are Platformed
		16.1 Platformed
		16.2 Market Power
		16.3 Vertical Integration
		16.4 The Digitalization Dilemma
		16.5 General Interest
		Notes
Part IV Platforms in the Energy Industries
	Chapter 17 Network Effects in the Energy Industries
		17.1 Network Effects in the Early Electricity Industry
		17.2 Growing Network Effects
		17.3 Peaking Network Effects
		17.4 Deregulation
		Notes
	Chapter 18 Distributed Systems and the Need for Coordination
		18.1 Tesla’s Ambitions
		18.2 Decentralized Generation: New Technologies and New Policies
		18.3 Further Technological Innovations at the Interface of Generation and Transmission
		18.4 What Is the Smart Grid?
		18.5 What Is New? Platformization in Electricity Distribution
		Notes
	Chapter 19 The Future of Energy
		19.1 From Electricity to Energy
		19.2 What Role for Digital Platforms in Energy?
		19.3 How Far Will Platforms Be Able to Go?
		19.4 What Does This Mean for Regulation?
Part V Regulating Platforms as the New Network Industries
	Chapter 20 Platforms as the New Network Industries
		20.1 Digital Platforms and Network Effects
		20.2 The Business of Creating Value through Network Effects
		20.3 Digital Platforms Are the New Network Industries
		20.4 Differences between the Old and the New Network Industries
		20.5 Implications for Regulation
		Notes
	Chapter 21 Regulating Platforms as Intermediaries
		21.1 Platforms Provide Intermediation Services
		21.2 Obligation to Protect and Promote the Interests of Their Clients
		21.3 Transparency
		21.4 Liability as Intermediaries
		21.5 Redress Mechanisms
		Notes
	Chapter 22 Regulating Platforms as Superintermediaries
		22.1 Digital Platforms as Superintermediaries
		22.2 Liability of Superintermediaries
		22.3 Fairness and Transparency for Business Users
		22.4 Network Industries and Superintermediaries
		Notes
	Chapter 23 Regulating Platforms with Market Power
		23.1 Winner-Takes-All?
		23.2 Competition Law and Regulation
		23.3 Pro-competition Behavioral Obligations
		23.4 Pro-competition Structural Obligations
		23.5 Fair, Reasonable and Non-discrimination Obligations
		Notes
	Chapter 24 Regulating Platform Ecosystems
		24.1 Promoting Network Effects
		24.2 Platforms and the General Interest
		24.3 Institutional Framework
		24.4 Transparency in Algorithms
		24.5 The European Model
		Notes
	Afterword
References
Index