Michael Kummer

Dr. Michael Kummer is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA) since August 2018, following a tenure as Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology (2015–2018). He holds affiliations with the School of Economics, Centre for Competition Policy, Applied Econometrics and Finance, and Industrial Economics at UEA. His research focuses on the Economics of Digitization, ICT, networks, and online markets, particularly examining user-generated content, online market structures, and consumer-firm interactions on digital platforms.

Key research themes include the impact of digitization on economic behavior, privacy in digital markets, and the dynamics of collaborative platforms like Wikipedia. Kummer has secured research funding through projects such as the Royal Economic Society-backed initiative exploring the Economics of Digitization (2022). His work bridges empirical industrial organization and applied econometrics, with publications in journals like Management Science and European Economic Review.

• Education: Details not explicitly stated in text.
• Affiliations: School of Economics, Centre for Competition Policy, Applied Econometrics and Finance Group, Industrial Economics Unit.

His research outputs span studies on GDPR's impact on app innovation, privacy-competition trade-offs in mobile ecosystems, and unemployment effects on digital public goods contribution. Methodologically, he employs randomized experiments and econometric approaches to analyze large-scale datasets from digital platforms.

Grants & Projects:

• UK Researcher and Practitioner Network for Economics of Digitization (Royal Economic Society, 2022).

Labs/Teams: Affiliated with UEA's interdisciplinary research centers focusing on competition policy and applied econometrics.