Managing competition on a two‐sided platform
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On many two‐sided platforms, users on one side not only care about user participation and usage levels on the other side, but they also care about participation and usage of fellow users on the same side. Most prominent is the degree of seller competition on a platform catering to buyers and sellers. In this paper, we address how seller competition affects platform pricing, product variety, and the number of platforms that carry trade.
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- Authors
- Belleflamme, P., & Peitz, M.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Centre for European Economic Research (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Peitz, Martin
- Venue
- Journal of Economics & Management Strategy
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2019-01
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-22
- ISSN
- 1058-6407 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9134
- OpenAlex
- W2895041186
- Cited by
- 109
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 16.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- shs.hal.science
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- HAL AMU (submittedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (CRC TR 224)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › Digital Platforms and Economics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Marketing › Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Keywords
- two-sided markets, seller competition, platform pricing, product variety, user participation
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