sellers shape the market structure in platform industries. If product market competition is tough, sellers avoid competitors … markets, several homogeneous platforms segment the market. Instead, if product market competition is soft, agglomeration on a … competition. …

are heterogeneous in their costs of bringing apps to the platform. We consider competition between two homogeneous …

gatekeeper to these consumers. Competitive strategies leading to intense competition on the consumer side reduce profits on that …

Does competition promote efficient platform pricing and market structures? We model imperfect platform competition … competition's impact on efficiency depends crucially on heterogeneity in users' valuations for network effects. The standard Flat … consequences of competition in calibrated models of the video game and newspaper industries.The appendices for this paper are …

business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …

This article studies competition between different types of ad-funded platforms attracting consumers with free services … that studies competition between standard platforms and social media platforms (with same-side network effects). We find …) externality on each other, competition fails to protect consumer welfare and behaves erratically. Finally, we present a few …

prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …