The value of a two-sided platform to buyers depends critically on the variety of
complementary products available for it, and on their quality. The platform can choose the …

Two‐sided platforms are often coupled with exclusive hardware products that connect two
sides of users, the consumers of the hardware product (ie, buyers) and the application …

This paper explores the role of exclusive contracting between vendors of platforms (such as
video game consoles) and vendors of complements (such as video games). The main …

This paper considers platform competition in a two‐sided market that includes buyers and
sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a favorable coordination bias in the market, in that …

In this paper we present a model of platform competition in which two firms offer horizontally
differentiated platforms and a group of complementors offers products that are …

On many two‐sided platforms, users on one side not only care about user participation and
usage levels on the other side, but they also care about participation and usage of fellow …

This paper models two-sided market platforms, which connect third-party suppliers
(developers) of many different products and services to users who demand a variety of these …

Because of the informational advantage of online marketplaces (ie, platforms), it is a
common belief that a platform's market entry will be detrimental to third-party sellers who sell …

In two-sided markets, hardware/software platforms meet the unified and personalized
demands of consumers through hardware and software products respectively, forming their …

We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits
through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic …