incumbent and entrant platforms, switching opportunities arise stochastically and users can choose whether to accept or reject …

-facto standards in high-technology industries. …

which Þrms differentiate across standards and consumers delay their adoption. With one standard, there is immediate adoption …

In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and … direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect … network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with …

One of the most salient issues faced by platforms like newspapers and credit card issuers is that users are … where a monopoly platform chooses (price or non-price) instruments. Users play two roles: 1) they are users of the platform’s …

Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the … overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they … are endogenously determined. We model an expansion game between two online platforms offering two different services to …

Theories of multi-sided markets suggest that a platform’s pricing strategies on different sides of the market are … empirically examine platforms’ pricing strategies by exploiting the gradual expansion of Craigslist, a website providing … of how incumbent media platforms respond to technologically disruptive entrants in multi-sided markets. …