Business models for digital goods: video games (free-to-play games)

In a recent post on IPdigIT Paul Belleflamme raised the question of what might be appropriate business models for …

Prezi: a successful freemium model?

Last year, I had to deliver a speech about the economics of Internet to a non-technical audience. To make …

Will the new Belgian Telecom Act lead to lower prices?

Since October 1st 2013, a new ” Telecom ” Act transposes into Belgian law a series of European directives to …

Browser War: The Return

This is the fourth post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Why does Microsoft keep chasing Google’s taillights with Bing?

Four years ago, Microsoft released a new search engine: Bing. It was aimed to be an improved version of …

What is the future of BlackBerry?

This is the second post adapted from term papers that my master students submitted in June 2013. This post …

Francqui & Prezi

J’ai donné hier la leçon inaugurale de la Chaire Francqui que m’a accordée HEC-ULg. Le titre : “Les grandes …

La nouvelle Loi Télécom conduira-t-elle à une baisse des prix ?

(Cet article combine deux articles initialement publiés sur le site de Regards Economiques.) Depuis le 1er octobre dernier, une …

Online banking, switching costs and competition: a complex story

(Updated February 7, 2013) In an article published in October 2012  in the New York Times, Nelson D. Schwartz …

Peut-on se faire de l’argent avec du gratuit?

En 2005, 580 millions de dollars ont été déboursés pour le rachat de MySpace. En 2007, Google a payé …