We examine the profitability and the welfare implications of pricediscrimination in two-sided markets. Platforms have information aboutthe preferences of the agents that allows them to price discriminatewithin each group. The conventional wisdom from one-sided horizontallydifferentiated markets...

A rather neglected issue in the tax competition literature is the dependence of equilibrium outcomes on the presence of firms and shoppers (two-sided markets). Making use of a model of vertical and horizontal differentiation, within which jurisdictions compete by providing public goods and...