The Economics and Regulation of Digitalisation

Turkey offers an interesting case study, both when it comes to the practice and the regulation of digitalization, as it combines a Western economic and legal system with an emerging country approach to digitalization. This co-edited volume examines the history, policies, economics, and various regulations of digitalization in Turkey.

The chapters provide a comprehensive overview of how digitalization has developed in Turkey and how digitalization has come to be regulated, inspired by EU legislation yet with a “Turkish touch”. It explores the take up of digitalization by industry, society, and government, before delving into examples from FinTech and cryptocurrency, to social media and e-commerce, and yielding lessons for comparable emerging countries.

Covering all the relevant aspects of digitalization, this book will be of interest to academics and students, particularly to those with an interest in innovation, economics of digitalization, policy, and regulation.

Muzaffer Eroğlu is Assistant Professor at the University of Boğaziçi, Faculty of Law; he lectures on company law, corporate governance, sustainability, and competition law. He holds an LLB from Ankara University, an LLM from the University of Kent, and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London. He carried out research as a visiting academic at the University of Oslo, the Max Planck Institutes for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, the European Institute of Florence, and the University of Oxford. His academic research focuses on corporate governance, competition law, and regulation of network industries. He has several publications in the fields of company law, competition law, and network industries, in both English and Turkish.

Matthias Finger is Professor at the Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Faculty of Management. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Geneva. He has been Assistant Professor at Syracuse University (New York), Associate Professor at Columbia University (New York), Professor of Management of Public Enterprises at the Swiss Federal Institute of Public Administration, and between 2002 and 2020, the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL. Since 2010, he has been a part-time professor at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, where he directs the Florence School of Regulation’s Transport Area (FSR-T). Since 2017, he has been a professor at the Faculty of Management at Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), directing the Istanbul Center for Regulation (IC4R).

Emin Köksal is Associate Professor of Economics at Bahçeşehir University. He teaches managerial economics for MBA programs and industrial organization for the undergraduate program. He also teaches courses such as Platform Economics and Competition Policy in Digital Markets. He publishes extensively on competition and regulatory issues in telecommunications, energy, and platform industries. He has experience in platform business models, network neutrality regulations, and internet usage. He is the associate editor-in-chief of the journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries. As an economic consultant, he has led economic analyses for antitrust cases and regulatory assessments.