PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (3)
In recent years, many innovative sharing economy platforms (SEPs) had a strong impact on their stakeholders: service providers and consumers...
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You can never overcome network effects: the truth behind the myth.
In a book soon to be published, Matthias C. Kettemann and Stephan Dreyer have invited 50 authors to clear up...
How to categorise network effects (and why)?
This post is co-authored by Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz. It is an extract from their book “The Economics of...
Patents and/or secrets? Questioning the best mode disclosure requirement
This post describes the preliminary results of an ongoing research project with my colleague Francis Bloch from Paris School of Economics. Context...
An introduction to the economics of platform competition – Part 3
In the first two episodes of this series, I examined what brings markets with platforms to be dominated by a single or...
An introduction to the economics of platform competition – Part 2
In this series, I explain the basic economic mechanisms that shape the competition among platforms. The first episode shows that positive...
An introduction to the economics of platform competition – Part 1
In this series of posts, my objective is to explain the basic economic mechanisms that shape the competition among platforms....
Who pays what on Spotify?
(By Paul Belleflamme, Martin Peitz and Martin Wicklow; published on IPdigIT on May 18, 2020) Imagine you moved from Denmark...
Sharing economy and tourism: Who wins and who loses?
(by Paul Belleflamme and Huan Ha; published on IPdigIT on July 2, 2020) The so-called sharing (or collaborative) economy is...