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Matchmakers: the new economics of multisided platforms

07 June 2016, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm

Matchmakers

Event Information

Open to

All

Organiser

Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics and the UCL Centre for Competition, Law & Society

Location

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/