Who pays what on Spotify?

Imagine you moved from Denmark to Malaysia and you want to subscribe to Spotify Premium from your new home. …

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 …

How to categorise network effects (and why)?

This post, co-authored by Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz (whom IPdigIT is very happy to welcome in its team!) …

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 …

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

We have recently written a chapter for the e-book “Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution“, edited by  Juan José …

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 …