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Paul Belleflamme

Paul Belleflamme is professor at UCLouvain. He is attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM), where he teaches courses in the fields of Industrial Organization, with a special focus on the digital economy. Read more

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Paul Belleflamme

Paul Belleflamme is professor at UCLouvain. He is attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM), where he teaches courses in the fields of Industrial Organization, with a special focus on the digital economy. Read more

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Do recommendation systems make the ‘tail’ longer or shorter?

(Updated March 2015) Earlier this month, Netflix (an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media) offered some details about

The smartphone patent wars and competition policy

Last Wednesday (April 18, 2012), Lucy Koh, a US District Court Judge, may have paved the way towards a

Building on Batibouw to understand two-sided platforms

In many economic and social situations, two groups of agents may interact through one or several intermediaries and prefer

A tale of Sheiks and cheques

The Bulletin is a magazine for expatriates moving to or living in Belgium. In its issue of July 10,

Network effects and expectations: the Million Dollar Homepage story

(Updated 25/02/2013) Network effects are ubiquitous in the digital economy. They refer to the idea that users prefer to be

Network effects

Network effects are ubiquitous in the digital economy. They refer to the idea that, for many reasons, users prefer

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

IP Management

In their book ‘Information Rules‘ (1999), Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian write the following: “The important thing

What to think of ‘patent trolls’? The return

In a previous post last year, I was presenting different views on so-called patent trolls, which are sometimes defined as

LEGO: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

Regarding intellectual property management, LEGO may seem to suffer from some form of personality disorder. Over the years, the company