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 …

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 …

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 …

La nouvelle stratégie européenne pour les données et le Livre blanc sur l’Intelligence Artificielle

Le 19 février 2020, la Commission européenne dévoilait son Livre blanc sur l’intelligence artificielle (IA)[1], en même temps que …

Patents and/or secrets? Questioning the best mode disclosure requirement

This post describes the preliminary results of an ongoing research project with my colleague Francis Bloch from Paris School …