We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …

This article studies the effects of consumer information on the intensity of competition. In a two dimensional duopoly …

-to-head competition with the seller, regardless of the level of horizontal differentiation. Mandating data-sharing, which allows the … competition in the downstream market. We then show that banning the hybrid business model and forbidding the use of data for price … competition comes from the platform's business model rather than from its information advantage. …

I investigate whether two mechanisms leading to biased beliefs about success, overconfidence and competition neglect … making their decision. Second, I vary whether the competition group consists of all potential competitors or only of …