Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 22-68
We consider platform competition in a two-sided market, where the two sides (buyers and sellers) have ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology. We find that platform competition may lead to a market failure: competition may result in a lower...