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The rise of the platform economy has been the subject of celebration and critique. Platform companies like Uber, Airbnb … market power of platform companies that use digital technology to connect a multi-sided network of individual users …. Specifically, we use the example of Uber as a lens to identify eight questions that are important for assessing platform power …
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Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
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mediating the interactions between consumers and firms. When platform competition is intense, more consumers subscribe to the … platform hosting the Superstar exclusively. This mechanism is self-reinforcing as firms follow consumer decisions and (some …) join exclusively the platform with the Superstar. Exclusivity always benefits firms and may benefit consumers. Moreover …
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This paper relates to current concerns about the high concentration of digital platform markets and the effects of …
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This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...
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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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