Platforms choose between offering exclusive deals or uniform prices to content providers in
a setting where content providers can multi-home or single-home. We find that platforms …

We study competition between horizontally differentiated platforms offering exclusive and
non-exclusive contracts to one side of the market (content providers). The introduction of non …

Many if not most markets with network externalities are two-sided. To succeed, platforms in
industries such as software, portals and media, payment systems and the Internet, must “get …

Many if not most markets with network externalities are two-sided. To succeed, platforms in
industries such as software, portals and media, payment systems and the Internet, must" get …

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 …

Many if not most markets with network externalities are two-sided. To succeed, platforms in
industries such as software, portals and media, payment systems and the Internet, must “get …

We compare a discriminatory pricing regime with a non-discriminatory regime in a
competitive bottleneck model where content providers endogenously sort into single or multi …

A repeated challenge in launching a two-sided market platform is how to ignite the cross-
side network effects to jump-start adoption. Prior literature often addresses this issue by …

This paper studies a general model of price competition among platforms offering
differentiated services in multi-sided markets. We incorporate a general form of both within …

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 …