Besides their role in reducing frictions and facilitating trade, two-sided platforms increasingly collect and process data, e.g., supply and demand forecasts, that can further affect market outcomes. This paper studies how a platform may choose to disclose its information about future demand to...

The U.S. and EU Merger Guidelines strongly emphasize the relevance of the "ease of entry" argument in merger evaluations. Up to now, very little is known empirically about how mergers affect entry and exit, and the resulting number of firms in the markets. We empirically test this aspect of...

The literature on the licensing of an innovation has mainly focused on some specific contract types. We show within the framework of a fairly general model that removing these contractual limitations will lead to extreme market outcomes. Specifically, we find that when the patentee can employ...