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 …

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 showed …

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 …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (3)

  In recent years, many innovative sharing economy platforms (SEPs) had a strong impact on their stakeholders: service providers …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (2)

PROSEco is an acronym for ‘Platform Regulation and Operations in the Sharing Economy‘. It is a research project that …

PROSEco: a ‘sparkling’ research project (1)

Over the last months, the two editors of this blog, Paul Belleflamme and Alain Strowel, have joined forces with …

Innovation et digitalisation

En préambule du 22ème Congrès des Economistes, qui se tiendra à Bruxelles le 30 novembre prochain, je vous livre …

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 …

Can Obama’s initiative ensure that ‘internet fast lanes’ do not develop to the detriment of standard access?

  On November 10, 2014, the US president called the agency in charge of regulating the media, the Federal …

Patent races: pros and cons

We have already developed on this blog the relationship between competition and innovation (see here and here). This relationship goes both ways. On …