Volker Stocker
Managing Director, Scientific Institute for Infrastructure and Communication Services (WIK)
Editorial boardSpecial issue, AI dynamicsSpecial issue, Law Tech Econ AI6 publications since 2024Official page
Publications in the Network Law Review
Newest first- 12 December 2025
Understanding Digital Sovereignty in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
William Lehr, Volker Stocker and Jason Whalley
EU Digital Sovereignty has emerged as a key policy topic amid growing geopolitical tensions fuelled by an AI arms race in which corporate investment and government support appear mutually reinforcing.
Machines in the marketGuarding the gatekeepersWhat is antitrust for?
- 29 September 2025
Principal-Agent Dynamics and Digital (Platform) Economics in the Age of Agentic AI
Volker Stocker and William Lehr
This article applies the principal–agent framework to the use of autonomous AI systems in digital markets. It examines the challenge of aligning AI agents with the interests of end-users, given that many systems may also reflect…
Machines in the marketMarkets in motionGuarding the gatekeepers
- 29 August 2025
Special issue on “The Law & Technology & Economics of AI”
Adrian Kuenzler, Thibault Schrepel and Volker Stocker
Regulators across the globe are rushing to ramp up their regulatory frameworks to rein in and deal with Big Tech and AI. Brussels has seized first-mover status and already rolled out a dense corpus of digital acts.
- 30 May 2025
The Growing Complexity of Digital Economies over the GenAI Waterfall: Challenges and Policy Implications
Volker Stocker and William Lehr
The GenAI genie is out of the bottle. AI, and its vanguard GenAI, is a change agent that profoundly impacts the global transition to a digital economy.
Machines in the marketMarkets in motionGuarding the gatekeepers
- 5 March 2024
AI Regulation and 6G: The Measurement Ecosystem Challenge
William Lehr and Volker Stocker
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its economic impacts have been emerging over decades. Even though the public launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 has caused a frenzy about generative AI that arguably prompted a surge in…
- 7 February 2024
Introduction to the symposium on Generative AI
Thibault Schrepel and Volker Stocker
Generative AI is capturing the attention and imagination of policymakers and researchers worldwide. Hundreds of working papers are being published every month, while technical advances are blossoming daily.