We model platform competition with network effects, infrastructure investment, and data collection and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data feedback improves service quality but may concentrate market power. Dispersed...

We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities and platforms' investments in data infrastructure....

We model platform competition with endogenous data generation, collection, and sharing, thereby providing a unifying framework to evaluate data-related regulation and antitrust policies. Data are jointly produced from users' economic activities and platforms' investments in data infrastructure....