Social Welfare and Cost Recovery in Two-Sided Markets /

Using a simple model of two-sided markets, we show that, in the social optimum, platform pricing leads to an inherent cost recovery problem. This result is driven by the positive externality of participation that users on either side of the market exert on the opposite side. The contribution of this...

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Autor Principal: Bolt, Wilko
Outros autores: Tieman, Alexander
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/194
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Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF