Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is … business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for …

firms competing for consumer attention and advertiser dollars. The last two decades of online platform competition … model innovations, and cross-platform rivalry. The palpable threat of displacement prevents online platforms from taking … their customers for granted. The history of online platform competition also provides empirical refutation of the …

Two-sided platform businesses serve distinct groups of customers and need each other in some way. They provide these …

to enhance public regulation of the perpetrators and better align the platform’s private incentives to engage in …

platform governance regimes — this paper considers important aspects of analyzing vertical restraints in the digital world. It … then considers several applications involving platform rules, exclusive contracts, and MFNs for digital intermediaries …