Bolt, Wilko; Tieman, Alexander F. - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2004
In two-sided markets, one widely observes skewed pricing strategies, in which the price mark-up is much higher on one … demand, skewed pricing is indeed pro?t maximizing. The most elastic side of the market is used to generate maximum demand by … less price elastic, the platform is able to extract high prices. Our skewed pricing result also carries over when analyzing …