Arun Sundararajan

Arun Sundararajan is an Associate Professor and NEC Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he also serves as director of the IS Ph.D. program and co-director of the IT Economics track at their Center for Digital Economy Research. His research studies the economics of information technology. His current interests include the economic analysis of development, digital goods, piracy and DRM, platforms, social media and cognitive surplus, reputation systems, and how networks affect economic outcomes. He has published in journals that include Decision Support Systems, Economics Letters, Information Systems Research, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science and Statistical Science. His research has won three Best Paper awards, and has been profiled by publications such as BusinessWeek, the Financial Times and the Tokyo Shimbun. His opinion pieces have appeared in BusinessToday, the Financial Times, the Economic Times, and SternBusiness.

Arun has served on the editorial boards of Management Science and MIS Quarterly as an associate editor, serves on the advisory board of SSRN’s ebusiness/ecommerce journal, and was the founding co-chair of the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of IT and the Workshop on Information in Networks. He teaches MBA students about IT and corporate strategy, doctoral students about microeconomic theory and the economics of IT, and undergraduate students about calculus in business. He has degrees in electrical engineering, operations research and business administration from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the University of Rochester.

Keywords

IT diffusion and adoption
Electronic commerce
Electronic markets and auctions
Network economics
Economics of IS
IT impacts on industry and market structure
Competitive impacts of IS
Analytical modeling
Network analysis