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A Price Theory of Multi-Sided Platforms

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Weyl, E. Glen·2010·American Economic Review
DOI 10.1257/aer.100.4.1642
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I develop a general theory of monopoly pricing of networks. Platforms use insulating tariffs to avoid coordination failure, implementing any desired allocation. Profit maximization distorts in the spirit of A. Michael Spence (1975) by internalizing only network externalities to marginal users. Thus the empirical and prescriptive content of the popular Jean-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole (2006) model of two-sided markets turns on the nature of user heterogeneity. I propose a more plausible, yet equally tractable, model of heterogeneity in which users differ in their income or scale. My approach provides a general measure of market power and helps predict the effects of price regulation and mergers. (JEL D42, D85, L14)

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Authors
Weyl, E. G.
Venue
American Economic Review
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2010-09-01
Volume
100
Issue
4
Pages
1642-1672
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1257/aer.100.4.1642
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W2116471306
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737
References
6
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journal article
Language
en
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