Platforms

Here is my work related to digital platforms and network effects.

Book

• The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

In refereed journals

• A Multisided Value Proposition Canvas for Online Platforms (with N. Neysen). Journal of Business Ecosystems (2) 1 (2021), 1-14.
• The Tension between Market Shares and Profit under Platform Competition (with Martin Peitz and Eric Toulemonde). International Journal of Industrial Organization 81 (2021), 102807.
• Price Disclosure by Two-Sided Platforms (with M. Peitz). International Journal of Industrial Organization 67, 102529 (2019).
• Managing Competition on a Two-Sided Platform (with M. Peitz). Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 28 (2019), 5-22.
• Platform Competition: Who Benefits from Multihoming? (with Martin Peitz). International Journal of Industrial Organization 64 (2019), 1-26.
• Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms (with E. Toulemonde). Journal of Public Economic Theory, 20 (2018), 9-21. Presentation Slides

• The Rise and Fall of Take Eat Easy, or Why Markets are not Easy to Take in the Sharing Economy (with N. Neysen). Digiworld Economic Journal (Communications & Strategies). N° 108 (4th Quarter, 2017), 59-76.

• Who Benefits from Increased Competition Among Sellers on B2C Platforms? (with E. Toulemonde). Research in Economics 70 (2016), 741–751.
• Understanding the Strategies of Crowdfunding Platforms (with N. Omrani and M. Peitz). CESifo DICE Report, 2, June (2016), 6-10.
• An Economic Appraisal of MOOC Platforms: Business Models and Impacts on Higher Education (with J. Jacqmin). CESifo Economic Studies 62 (2016), 48-169.
• The Economics of Crowdfunding Platforms (with N. Omrani and M. Peitz). Information Economics and Policy 33 (2015), 11-28.
• Platform Competition and Seller Investment Incentives (with M. Peitz). European Economic Review, 50 (2010), 1059-1076.
• Negative Intra-Group Externalities in Two-Sided Markets (with E. Toulemonde). International Economic Review, 50/1 (2009), 245-272.
• Product Differentiation in Successive Vertical Oligopolies (with E. Toulemonde). Canadian Journal of Economics, 36 (2003), 523-545.
• Coordination on Formal vs. De Facto Standards: a Dynamic Approach. European Journal of Political Economy, 18 (2002), 153-176.
• Stable Coalition Structures with Open Membership and Asymmetric Firms. Games and Economic Behavior, 30 (2000), 1-21.
• An Economic Theory of Regional Clusters (with P. Picard and J.-F. Thisse). Journal of Urban Economics 48/1 (2000), 158-184.
• Adoption of Network Technologies in Oligopolies. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 16 (1998), 415-444.

Book chapters

• Myth #41. Network Effects Cannot Be Overcome. In M.C. Ketteman and S. Dreyer (eds). Busted! The Truth about the 50 Most Common Internet Myths. Hamburg: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut (2020).
• Inside the Engine Room of Digital Platforms: Review, Ratings and Recommendations (with Martin Peitz). In Ganuza, J.J. and G. Llobet (Eds). Economic Analysis of the Digital Revolution. FUNCAS Social and Economic Studies 5. Funcas: Madrid, Spain (2018).
• Platforms and network effects (with Martin Peitz). In Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization, Volume II edited by Luis Corchon and Marco Marini, Edward Elgar.
• Les plateformes de l’économie collaborative: fonctionnement et enjeux. In La consommation collaborative. Enjeux et défis de la nouvelle société du partage, dirigé par Alain Decrop (Université de Namur), De Boeck. 2017
• Platforms and Network Effects (with M. Peitz). In Corchon, L. and M. Marini (Eds). Handbook of Game Theory and Industrial Organization. Edward Elgar. Chelthenam, UK, Northampton, MA, USA. Forthcoming 2017.
• Coopetition in Infomediation: General Analysis and Application to e-Tourism (with N. Neysen). In A. Matias, P. Nijkamp and M. Sarmento (eds.) Advances in Modern Tourism, vol. II. Chapter 14. 217-234 (2009). Berlin: Springer.

Large audience

• The competitive impacts of exclusivity and price transparency in markets with digital platforms (with M. Peitz). Concurrences N° 1 (2020), 2-12.
• Uber va-t-il mourir? The Conversation, December 2017.
• A qui profitent les sites de partage? Interview in Ca m’intéresse (October 2017, 74-77).
• Dans l’économie du partage, il faut comprendre que les taxes aussi sont partagées. The Conversation, May 2016.
• Les plateformes MOOCs. Menaces et opportunités pour l’enseignement universitaire (with J. Jacqmin). Regards Economiques, 110 (2014).