Client recognition, a practice that recognizes repeat and new clients from their purchase histories to price discriminate among them, is currently prevalent in the two-sided platform markets. This paper examines the impact of client recognition on pricing strategy, platform profitability,...

I study a vertically differentiated product market intermediated by a monopoly platform. A monopoly seller offers a low- and a high-quality product to consumers with heterogenous preferences to purchase through the platform rather than directly from the seller. Absent any restrictions imposed by...

In this Discussion Paper, we focus our analysis on the Lattes Platform - a public initiative developed endogenously in the late 1990s which was very innovative - since it is a representative case of a scientific platform and is a paramount tool for the Brazilian scientific system. Although there...