Matchmakers: the new economics of multisided platforms
07 June 2016, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Event Information
Open to
- All
Organiser
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Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics and the UCL Centre for Competition, Law & Society
Location
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UCL Events Pavillion, Gower St, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 6BT
A one-hour seminar on the Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
Speaker: Professor David Evans (UCL / University of Chicago) and Will Page (Chief Economist, Spotify)
Organised by the Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics and the UCL Centre for Competition, Law & Society
Accreditation: 1 CPD hour
About the course
David S. Evans will talk about navigating how matchmakers are disrupting traditional industries and how the new economics of multisided platform can help navigate what’s going on and how it matters for you and your clients. Dr. Evans is the co-author of Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms which has been profiled recently in The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and is the #1 Best Seller in Strategy and Competition on Amazon. David is Executive Director, Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics, and Visiting Professor, at UCL.
Then Will Page, Chief Economist at Spotify, will talk about some exciting developments at this important platform business.
The one-hour presentation follows Dr. Evans course on the Digital Economy which you are also invited to register for https://www.laws.ucl.ac.uk/event/digital-economy/