The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading … community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to … compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model the direct competition in the e-book platform market through a …

We empirically study a dynamic platform competition in the online daily deals promotion industry characterized by …

We consider platform competition in the presence of small users and a usergroup. One platform enjoys a quality ….e., joining a low-quality platform because they believe that other users would do the same. We find that when the group is … sufficiently large to facilitate coordination on the high-quality platform, the group may choose to join the low-quality one. When …

maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces more consumers to multi-home and makes platform …

We study the effects of competition and interoperabilty in platform markets. To do so, we adopt an approach of … competition in net fees, which is well-suited to situations where users pay additional charges, after joining, for on-platform … interactions. Compared to other approaches, net fees expand the tractable scope to allow platform asymmetry and variable total …