Marshall Van Alstyne

Marshall W. Van Alstyne is an American academic and researcher whose work focuses on the economics of information, digital platforms, and market design. He is a professor of information systems at Boston University and has held affiliated research appointments at Harvard Law School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and Stanford University. His work focuses on the economics of information. This includes a sustained interest in information markets and in how information and technology affect productivity with an emphasis on “platforms” as an extension of the work on two-sided markets.