have led to the growth of platform work in many countries all over the world. The article analyses the situation of … platform workers in the Lithuania's labour market in the context of other EU countries. The paper presents the findings of a … survey of platform workers carried out to define the social-economic picture of platform workers and identify their attitudes …

Platform interoperability is considered a powerful tool to promote competition in digital markets when network effects …. When one ("large") platform has an installed base of customers, its incentive to make its services interoperable is lower … than for the other, smaller platform. However, mandating interoperability between the asymmetric platforms is not always …

with service quality inconsistency. The impact of service inconsistency on platform members’ rating behavior remains un …-examined. I use unique data from an online medicine delivery platform in India that relies on delivery persons for their service …

We present a general and tractable oligopoly model of multi-sided platforms with endogenous side and platform choices … characterize optimal platform pricing. Using the equilibrium conditions, we formally derive (across sides and platforms) switching …-subsidization" result. We then provide a unifying framework to analyze multi-sided platform mergers, which rationalizes mixed results from …

We study an e-commerce platform’s incentive to enter the credit market and offer loans for vendors’ innovations. The … platform earns from both its lending ac- tivity and fees collected on transactions in the marketplace. If the platform does not … innovation. If the platform offers loans, it engages in a cross-subsidy raising the fee and lowering the loan rate. We identify …

Microsoft acquired DATAllegro in July 2008 and is preparing the new release of its BI platform for 2010. Projects …

Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and … is already on the horizon - the ubiquitous online trading platform Amazon. Competitors and suppliers but also famous …