My current research includes how consumers choose media and products, how consumers' decisions are impacted on by information filters like search engines and recommender systems, and how firms can influence the process using Internet advertising and by pricing their goods appropriately. In this vein, my work addresses how to price digital goods, how network structure and rationality affect adoption and dynamic pricing in markets with network effects, how to distribute media using P2P and other Internet overlay structures.

I am also interested in how network effects, whether construed as information flow or market structure constraints, affect strategic choices by firms and the overall systemic efficiency of markets. My research in this area centers on R&D collaboration agreements, R&D portfolio investment and project resource allocation problems, and the design of algorithms, policies, and contracts to help improve firms' decision-making.

Selected Publications:

J. Corbo, Pricing and Product Adoptions Dynamics on Networks, The Association for Public Economic Theory (PET) 10th Annual Conference, Galway, Ireland, June 2009.

J. Corbo, S. Jain, M. Mitzenmacher, D. C. Parkes, An Economically Principled Generative Model of Internet Interdomain Connectivity, In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009. Download/view PDF.

J. Corbo, D. C. Parkes, Equilibria and Design in Local Strategic Substitute Games, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Paris, France, December 2008.

J. Corbo, A. Calvo-Armengol, D. C. Parkes, The Importance of Network Topology in Local Contribution Games In X. Deng and F. Chung Graham, editors, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Springer-Verlag, December 2007. Download/view PDF.