Investing on value-added service (VAS) amplifies users' participation and platform profit.
However, the investing resource is usually limited in practice. This paper investigates VAS …

Abstract Research Summary Within platform‐based ecosystems, what drives platform
owners' investment decision to enable third‐party complements onto their platforms …

This paper examines how online content providers monetize their content when the residing
platform gives them full pricing autonomy and allows referral program for their audience …

Platform ecosystems in the software industry are considered to have two sides: third-party
developers that provide applications and customers that use these applications. However, in …

Many online platforms of today, including social media sites, are two-sided markets bridging
content creators and users. Most of the existing literature on platform recommendation …

We propose a tractable model of asymmetric platform oligopoly in which users from two
distinct groups are subject to within-group and cross-group network effects and decide …

This dissertation contains three studies on competitive dynamics within digital platforms. All
of my three essays focus on platform complementors (producers of complementary products …

Research on platform owners' entry into complementary markets points in divergent
directions. One strand of the literature reports a squeeze on post-entry complementor profits …