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 …

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 …

Les plateformes de crowdfunding : comprendre leurs rôles et leurs stratégies

Comme déjà expliqué sur ce blog (en anglais), le crowdfunding (ou financement participatif) est une forme alternative de financement qui …

How do comparison shopping sites make a living? An update

Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such …

Coverage of the HSBC scandal: a story of two-sided media bias?

On February 17, 2015, Peter Osborne, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator, has resigned from the paper.  He explains his …

Mind. your own. business school – a case study of a multi-sided platform

This blog post is based on the comments of Master students to an article posted by Paul Belleflamme in …

A ‘multisourced’ case-study of a multisided platform

To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a …

When sheiks and cheques shake the media

  A media bias is defined by Wikipedia as the bias or perceived bias of journalists and news producers …

What drives self-regulation in the nascent P2P “ride-sharing” industry?

The American company Uber has been all over the news in Belgium over the last three weeks. Uber connects passengers …

How do comparison shopping sites make a living?

Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such …