Competition between two-sided platforms is shaped by the possibility of multihoming. If users on both sides singlehome … side can multihome, platforms exert monopoly power on that side and compete on the singlehoming side. This paper explores … the allocative effects of such a change from single- to multihoming. Our results challenge the conventional wisdom …

of multi-homing on both sides is mostly ignored in the literature on competition between two-sided platforms. We help …A major result in the study of two-sided platforms is the strategic interdependence between the two sides of the same … multiple platforms easier, we increasingly observe that participants on both sides of two-sided platforms multihome. The case …

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of …