Paul Belleflamme graduated in economics at the University of Namur (1991), where he received his doctoral degree in economics (1997). He also holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Columbia University (1992). In 1998, he became lecturer in economics at Queen Mary, University of London, where he obtained a Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP) in November 2001. In 2002, he joined Université catholique de Louvain, where he is attached to the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and to the Louvain School of Management (LSM). Between January 2017 to August 2018, Paul took a leave of absence from UCLouvain so as to acquire new experiences; during that period, he was professor at AMSE (Aix-Marseille School of Economics) and visiting professor at Kedge Business School. Paul’s main research area is theoretical industrial organization, with a special focus on innovation in the digital economy (which is also the main topic of his blog, www.IPdigIT.eu). Paul has published widely in leading economics journals and, with Martin Peitz, is the author of Industrial Organization: Markets and Strategies (Cambridge University Press, 2010 and 2015). Paul is a fellow of the CESifo Research Network. He is associate editor of Journal of Economics, co-editor of E-conomics, and managing editor of Regards Economiques and DialogEco. He also served as associate editor of Information Economics and Policy, and of Review of Network Economics. (Google Scholar profile / IDEAS RePEc page / SSRN page)  

paul.belleflamme@uclouvain.be
+32 10 478291
Professor of economics, UCLouvain
CORE
Voie du Roman Pays, 34 (PO Box L1.03.01)
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

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IPdigIT

Research Areas

Industrial economics, economics of digitization
Microeconomics

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Twitter @PaulBelleflamme

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Uber va-t-il mourir?

(First published on The Conversation) Le titre de cet article n’est pas un effet de manche mais une question, légitime, que de plus en plus d’observateurs se posent. Il est indéniable qu’Uber (la plateforme bien connue de voitures avec chauffeurs) va mal. Au-delà de ses déboires avec les régulateurs de nombreuses villes (comme Londres ou Québec), des […]

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Crowdfunding and co-opetition

First published on IPdigIT. On May 22, the Laboratory of Excellence for Financial Regulation (LabEx-ReFi) organized a one-day workshop on Online Alternative Finance: Building a Bridge between Research and Practitioners. The objective of the workshop was “to bring together scholars, industry leaders and regulators to have an open-minded discussion about our current state of knowledge […]

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Take Eat Easy (3). L’uberisation a-t-elle du plomb dans l’aile?

First published on IPdigIT. Dans cette série d’articles, je cherche à comprendre ce qui a fait passer la plateforme Take Eat Easy du Capitole à la roche Tarpéienne. Après avoir présenté un cadre d’analyse économique des plateformes de l’économie du partage (ou plateformes P2P) et donné la parole à son fondateur, Adrien Roose, je m’interroge […]

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Take Eat Easy (2). La parole au fondateur

First published on IPdigIT. Dans ce deuxième volet de la série consacrée à la plateforme Take Eat Easy, IPdigIT donne la parole à Adrien Roose, un des co-fondateurs de la plateforme, qui fut aussi son dernier CEO. (Le premier article de la série présente quelques balises économiques pour comprendre l’économie des plateformes dites ‘P2P’; le […]

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Take Eat Easy (1). Une histoire à partager

First published on IPdigIT. Quand on parle de “l’économie du partage”, on se concentre généralement sur les quelques success-stories (ou supposées comme telles) que sont Uber et Airbnb. Or, il faut savoir partager aussi les histoires de semi-réussites ou d’échecs, car il y a autant – si pas plus – à apprendre d’elles. Tel est […]

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Uberisation : quelques clés pour mieux comprendre

First published on IPdigIT. Dans un article récent, le journal Le Monde explique comment Ben Becker et Elliot Glass, deux Américains actifs dans le monde de la publicité, ont habilement trompé leur monde en orchestrant une campagne de lancement pour une fausse application, prétendument destinée à devenir un Uber pour crottes de chien: Pooper est […]

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“Big Data in the Platform Economy” – A Digest of the Conference

On May 13, 2016, the editors of IPdigIT organized a one-day conference to study the growing importance of ‘Big data in the platform economy‘. To this end, they assembled a panel of experts from several disciplines: applied mathematics, engineering, economics, management, policy-making, and law. (You can find the general description of the conference here). The […]

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How do comparison shopping sites make a living? An update

First published on IPdigIT. Comparison shopping sites, also known as shopping robots or shopbots, have been around for about two decades. Sites such as Shopping.com, Shopper.com, PriceGrabber, Shopzilla, Vergelijk or Kelkoo help us find goods or services that are sold online by providing us with loads of information (products sold, price charged, quality, delivery and […]

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The multisidedness of crowdfunding platforms

First published on IPdigIT. A number of posts on this blog have already dealt with multisided platforms (see here) and with crowdfunding (see here). My aim with this post is to link the two topics and show that crowdfunding platforms are a prime example of multisided platforms. Crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) facilitate the interaction between entrepreneurs […]

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A ‘multisourced’ case-study of a multisided platform

First published on IPdigIT. To paraphrase a famous Belgian surrealist artist: “This post is not a post“. More precisely, it is not a post yet, but it should become one once all your comments will be pieced together. My goal, in a very lazy educational way, is to build a case study of a specific […]