Over the past three decades, platform competition—the competition between firms that
facilitate transactions and govern interactions between two or more distinct user groups who …

As these examples illustrate, MSPs include some of the largest and fastest-growing
businesses of the past decade. Why? Successful MSPs create enormous value by reducing …

This Chapter provides a survey of the economics literature on multi-sided platforms with
particular focus on competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers …

Although datasets are abundant and assumed to be immensely valuable, they are not being
shared or traded openly and transparently on a large scale. We investigate the nature of …

This article surveys the recent theoretical literature on payment cards (focusing on debit and
credit cards) and studies this research's possible implications for the current public policy …

Multi-sided platforms such as exchanges, search engines, social networks, and software
platforms create value by assembling and serving communities of people and businesses …

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 …

Although industrial datasets are abundant and growing daily, they are not being shared or
traded openly and transparently on a large scale. We investigate the nature of data trading …

Peer-to-peer marketplaces have fueled the growth of the sharing economy. Despite their
proliferation, little systematic evidence and theory exist on how nascent intermediaries build …

The growth of the peer-to-peer (P2P) economy over the last decade has captivated both
stock markets and policymakers alike. While the means for transacting might be different to …