As digital technologies improve and platforms have access to more user data, platforms can
use recommender systems (RSs) to discover users' interests and make better matches. The …

In recent years, many platforms have realized that relying on subsidies and low-price
strategies may result in limited access to users. To expand the market scale and realize the …

We investigate an intriguing strategy where rival content platforms jointly launch a
membership bundle that allows consumers to access both of their platforms at a reduced …

Content platforms suffer from declining subscriber growth. To address this issue, we
examine an interesting strategy that competing platforms jointly launch a membership …

This research investigates the effects of “choose-one-over-another” monopolistic strategies
on two-sided platforms, analyzing the implications of such practices on network effects and …

We delve into the Hotelling price competition game without assuming full market coverage,
and derive three equilibrium configurations. Two of them are well-known: Hotelling duopoly …

Two horizontally differentiated firms compete for exclusivity of a superior input, then choose
their quality and price. Exclusive dealing is the unique equilibrium when it results in a strictly …

Incidents of monopolies among Internet platforms have seriously endangered the
development of the market economy, public interest, and social fairness, making it a highly …

The application of the crowdsourcing model to instant delivery has achieved remarkable
success. Various crowdsourced logistics platforms have successfully addressed the …

Due to the switching behavior of online consumers, news outlets increasingly compete with
each other to attract audience for each single news item they produce, rather than for …