We analyze the competitive effects of various interconnection regimes. Compared to the case in which platforms are not interconnected, we find that implementing within-group interconnection by a dominant group of platforms could reduce market prices and raise the interconnected platforms’...

Mixed two-sided platforms suffer from the dilemma related to the platform’s regulation of user-generated content (UGC). Strict regulation may weaken the willingness of users to continuously generate new content, whereas loose regulation may lead to massive low-quality content shares. This...

Most digital content distributed in information-goods platforms encounter the threat of online piracy. Strategic pricing, technology-based platform protection, and deterrent enforcement such as legal and moral measures are viewed as antidotes to piracy. We examine the effects of deterrent...