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La nouvelle directive sur le droit d’auteur: un “texte équilibré” sur la...
Le 15 avril 2019, le Conseil de l’UE adoptait, en co-décision avec le Parlement européen, la directive sur le droit d’auteur dans le marché unique numérique (qui doit encore être publiée au Journal...
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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 up misconceptions about the impact and reality of the Internet and explain fact-based, vividly...
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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!) is an excerpt of a book, entitled ‘The Economics of Platforms‘, that the two authors are...
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La nouvelle stratégie européenne pour les données et le Livre blanc sur...
Le 19 février 2020, la Commission européenne dévoilait son Livre blanc sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA)[1], en même temps que sa « stratégie européenne pour les données »[2]. Les deux dossiers sont...
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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 platforms. In this episode, I argue that positive network effects tend to lead to...
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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 that positive network effects create feedback loops, which drive markets...
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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 a single or by a few winners. I conclude here by discussing the critical influence of...
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Who pays what on Spotify?
Imagine you moved from Denmark to Malaysia and you want to subscribe to Spotify Premium from your new home. Being new to the country, you do the math of converting the currency from Malaysian Ringgits...
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Airbnb: A qui profite l’économie collaborative?
Dans son Numéro 133 (Eté 2020), la revue En Question (éditée par le Centre Avec; voir aussi ici) publie un dossier intitulé “Peut-on encore partir en vacances?“, dossier brûlant s’il en est dans la...
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Sharing economy and tourism: who wins and who loses?
The so-called sharing (or collaborative) economy is generally presented as comprising activities that involve sharing under-used resources, in that the owners of these resources (the providers) make...
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