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sharing for efficiency, productivity and sus-tainability are predicated upon the adoption of an online digital platform. The … conundrum is that, as the intermediary, the owner of a successful platform acquires significant power in relationship to the … platform sides. This paper identifies five types of platform business models/ownership arrangements and their benefits and …
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platform disruption and a tool to assess its risk, one which can enable executives to identify the threats but also the … opportunities associated with digital platform disruption … offerings can be, and whether there are unexploited heterogeneous customer preferences determine the degree of digital platform …
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. Platforms compete for consumers and advertisers. A platform earns a premium from advertising to singlehomers, as it is a …
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platforms and platform competition, and elaborates on some routes taken by recent research. …
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-sided platform, or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an … and management of MSPs. Specifically, we argue that the literature would benefit from work that endogenizes platform …
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This paper addresses adverse consequences of the European Union definition of a "service", especially regarding the Digital Single Market Strategy. After an introduction, the second section analyses through legal texts, its somewhat outdated view, where a "service" covers all intangible items....
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competition problems arising in digital platform markets. Alongside a proposal for ex ante regulation in this arena, the European …
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Digital platforms frequently refer their users to competitors. We show that these references induce a business-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also decrease as the quality effect may overwhelm the...
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This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...
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their common presence on the platform. We finally show that these crowdfunding dynamics stir platform growth, with important …
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