large digital platforms that generate a combination of positive and negative welfare effects for society, including data … with this. Platforms are necessary intermediaries to generate the social welfare or network externalities from data …. However, the economic role of data-driven platforms is ambivalent. On the one hand, platforms enable society to benefit from …

This article studies incentives for a premium provider (Superstar) to offer exclusive contracts to competing platforms …

-sized companies from the market. When looking at the large platforms of this new digital economy their success model is based almost … exclusively on generating data and extracting economically useful information from this data. In relation to trading platforms … that can be leveraged in connection with e-commerce platforms. Due to this, we will first take a closer look at e …