prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them …

prices on both sides of the market, most of the literature has avoided models with Bertrand competition on both sides or has … policy simulation in the context of competition policy, it is important that equilibria exist and are unique. Otherwise, one …

-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also … anti-competitive effect while preserving the diversity effect. When there is competition among third parties, interplatform …

The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) has concluded that competition in the market for SME loans … running their businesses, it is particularly important that there is sufficient competition in the market. A lack of … competition could lead to higher funding costs for SMEs, worse service from banks, and less innovation.ACM has established that …

homogeneous and heterogeneous product, Cournot, Tullock competition) the Nash-2 equilibrium sets are obtained and considered as … tacit collusion or strong competition in dependence of additional security considerations …

Competition has been modelled in the literature in a number of ways. What do these different parametrizations of … competition have in common? For instance, it turns out that it is not always the case that a rise in competition reduces price … cost margins, industry wide profits or concentration. All parametrizations of competition, considered here, have two …

game theory model to study platform competition with bonus strategies. Our analysis shows that the two types of bonuses … due to the softened platform competition. Second, when labor supply is thin, contingent bonus will be offered. In this … case, contingent bonus reduces platform profit because it intensifies platform competition and traps the platforms in a …