Christiaan Hogendorn, associate professor of economics, has been named a co-editor of Information Economics and Policy, an international academic journal focused on mass media and communications technology industries. He assumes his duties as one of the quarterly journal’s three co-editors in January. Hogendorn’s current research focuses on the economics of the Internet, including the infrastructure and regulation needed to keep it innovative. IEP is published by Elsevier of Amsterdam. The journal publishes peer-reviewed, policy-oriented research about the production, distribution and use of information. Separately, Hogendorn, who joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2001, expects to publish a chapter in a book forthcoming…

Chris Hogendorn, associate professor of economics, co-chaired a session and presented his paper "Platform Contracting and Exclusivity" at the International Industrial Organization Conference at Northeastern University on April 4.