sellers shape the market structure in platform industries. If product market competition is tough, sellers avoid competitors … markets, several homogeneous platforms segment the market. Instead, if product market competition is soft, agglomeration on a … competition. …

Does competition promote efficient platform pricing and market structures? We model imperfect platform competition … competition's impact on efficiency depends crucially on heterogeneity in users' valuations for network effects. The standard Flat … consequences of competition in calibrated models of the video game and newspaper industries.The appendices for this paper are …

gatekeeper to these consumers. Competitive strategies leading to intense competition on the consumer side reduce profits on that …

platforms and platform competition, and elaborates on some routes taken by recent research. …

may face competition by an entrant in the applications market. The platform monopolist can benefit from competition for … three reasons. First, his profits from the platform increase. Second, competition serves as a credible commitment to lower …

costs to the products being advertised, - Elimination (or non-emergence) of competition in markets to the products being …