Dr. Volker Stocker

About
Volker Stocker is an economist who specializes in the digital economy and the Internet ecosystem. Since May 2019, he has been leading the multidisciplinary research group “Digital Economy, Internet Ecosystem, and Internet Policy” at the Weizenbaum Institute (Gprior to September 2022, the group was named “Work and Cooperation in the Sharing Economy”). Additionally, Volker is an associated researcher in the Internet Architecture and Management Group at TU Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, and an affiliated scholar with the Dynamic Competition Initiative (EUI & UC Berkeley Haas School of Business). Furthermore, Volker is a board member of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS), and Co-Chair of the ITS Europe.
In his research, Volker takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining different areas of expertise and methods to investigate critical issues related to the digital economy at the intersection of technology, economics/management, and policy. His primary research interests include the economics, evolution, and regulation of digital infrastructures, platforms, and technologies, as well as the Internet ecosystem.
Fields of Research
- Sharing Economy
- Economics of Platforms
- Infrastructure Sharing
- Network Economics of the Internet
- Broadband Policy
- Internet Policy
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