Paul, BELLEFLAMME; PEITZ, Martin - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
-profit platforms affects sellers’ investment incentives. Investments in cost reduction, quality, or marketing measures are here to … investment incentives. As for-profit intermediaries reduce the rents that are availale in the market, one might suspect that … sellers have weaker investment incentives with competing for-profit platforms. However, this is not necessarily the case. The …