HECER

MIKKO MUSTONEN
DSocSc (Econ), MSc (Tech)
Researcher

Office address:
Aalto University School of Economics
Department of Economics
P.O. Box 21240 (Arkadiankatu 7)
FI-00076 AALTO

Contact information:
mikko.mustonen[at]hse.fi
Tel +358-400-200 480

CV (PDF)

My first area of interest is the economics of IT-industry. The features of goods, like product compatibility within and between systems and network effects, provide interesting themes for research. Free or open source software is a new phenomenon that has implications both to the labour market and consumer market of software industry. My approach to these issues is in Industrial Organization tradition with partial equilibrium industry models. A second research topic is the economics of corporate culture.

Published papers:

- Mustonen M. (2000) Strategic R&D investment in future compatibility. EURAS Yearbook of Standardization Vol. 3, ed. Holler M, Niskanen E. (Homo Oeconomicus XVII(3)), Accedo Verlag, Munich, Germany.
- Mustonen M. (2003) Copyleft – the economics of Linux and other open source software. Information Economics and Policy 15(1), 99-121.
- Mustonen M. (2005) When do firms support the development of substitute copyleft programs? Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 14(1), 121-139.
- Glazer A., Kanniainen V., Mustonen M. (2005) When A Loser Gains: Free Riding in The Innovation of Network Goods. Journal of Economics, 87, 55-71.
- Mustonen M. (2005) Signalling Cost with Investment in Compatibility. Netnomics 7, 39-57.
- Leppämäki M., Mustonen M. (2009) Skill signaling with product market externality. The Economic Journal, 119, 1130-1142.
- Mustonen M. (2010) The employment contract when the firm can utilize a free resource. Journal of Economics, forthcoming.

Dissertation

Essays on the Economics of Information and Communication Technologies: Copyleft, Networks and Compatibility
- abstract

Work in progress:

The simple economics of Creative Commons.
Incentives, information extraction and task assignments. (joint work with Mikko Leppämäki)

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