Platforms care about the quality of components they host. For example, a computer operating system is more popular - and thus more profitable - when the software is high quality. Some platforms offer special arrangements to high-quality firms - for example, Apple promotes high-quality Macintosh...

Daily-deal platforms have been in the spotlight in recent years. Originated from the group-buying selling strategy, these platforms have now shifted toward a business model that combines deep discount and advertising. We analyze the structure of daily-deal platforms from the two-sided market...

I study a platform-mediated two-sided matching with incomplete information. Platform users voluntarily disclose their taste information to the platform, and the platform aggregates and redistributes the collected information back to each user before they form matches. I characterize conditions...

This paper develops a duopoly model of user-generated content (UGC) platforms that compete for consumers and content producers in two-sided markets with network externalities. Each platform can choose the level of investment into a content quality assurance (CQA) system and the level of...

Online labor platforms provide freelancers the opportunity to work for clients on a project basis. However, disputes can occur as a result of the platform users' attempts to game the system, disagreement on the work quality or uncertainty of the quality outcomes. Traditionally, the dispute would...

In two-sided markets a platform allows consumers and sellers to interact by creating sub-markets within the platform marketplace. For example, Amazon has sub-markets for all of the different product categories available on its site, and smartphones have sub-markets for different types of...