Co-opetition Among Digital Platforms and Consumer Welfare

This note provides some comments on the nature of competition among digital platforms (mainly the GAFA), which will be qualified as ‘co-opetition’, to reflect the complementarity of services offered and fierce rivalry among the platforms in their strategies of vertical integration. The main question is the extent to which co-opetition among digital platforms, and the associated race for innovation serves consumer welfare both in a static and dynamic perspective