failures both on-platform, among merchants, and off-platform, among competing platforms. This paper develops two product … introduces a new data right for platform users, the in-situ data right, which is associated with positive welfare gains. By …

The phenomenal rise of the platform economy has reshaped how economies operate across the world. The importance of … and productive interaction between buyers and sellers. Enterprises using platform-based business models have expanded … impact generated by the platform economy in India, by estimating consumer surplus from the use of platforms, analysing its …

govern the platform ecosystem; iii) dynamic efficiency and competition ensure that incentives for market misconduct and …

data from an online dating platform, we document a large excess demand, or congestion, for some women. By exploiting … exogenous variation in the number of men and women using the platform, we show that congestion slows down matching time for men …