Navarra, Federico; Pino, Flavio; Sandrini, Luca - 2024
differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate consumers, whereas the seller cannot … seller to also price discriminate, does not seem to solve this problem and, in fact, aggravates it further, generally … competition in the downstream market. We then show that banning the hybrid business model and forbidding the use of data for price …