Reviews, Ratings, and Recommendations: The 3 R’s that make digital platforms’ engine roar

Martin Peitz and myself have recently written a chapter for the e-book “Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution“, edited …

Understanding the strategies of crowdfunding platforms

(This article, co-authored by Paul Belleflamme, Nessrine Omrani and Martin Peitz, has been published in the CESIfo DICE Report …

What is ‘patent holdup’? Should it be regulated? If yes, how?

On January 6, 2016, the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute (LCII) organized a half-day conference around the question: “Regulating …

Personalized Pricing: “Big Data is watching you!”

Until recently, the idea of first-degree price discrimination was just a theoretical concept resting in standard microeconomics textbooks, as …

Incumbents and the sharing economy: the example of GM

It is safe to say that the automotive industry experiences some turmoil; cars themselves, as well as the way …

Taking on Uber

Over the past six years, Uber has become a synonym for on-demand transportation services. The San-Francisco based start-up pioneered …

Targeted prices and privacy: the hidden cost of hiding

The recent developments in digital technologies (e-commerce, social media and networks, mobile computing, sensor technologies) have not only driven …

The scope of “copyleft“ effect: What’s right and what’s “left“? (part II – Triggering “copyleft”)

As was described in the first part, “copyleft” can be translated into simple words as an obligation to license …

Strategic timing of movie releases

Large promotion and production budgets help movie studios not only to attract the audience but also to secure the most profitable …

The scope of “copyleft“ effect: What’s right and what’s “left“? (part I – Introduction)

March 2015  marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of one of the first and most prominent documents presenting …