We design the profit-maximizing mechanism to sell an excludable and nonrival good with network effects. Buyers have …

In contrast to traditional business models, two-sided platforms internalize indirect network effects that exist between … different groups of platform participants. The strength of the network effects has a decisive influence on the success of the … platform and its market position. Markets with particularly strong network effects are also often characterized by a high …

traditional analysis of price discrimination, are driven by the existence of cross-group network effects. By improving the firm …