Tag: Two-Sided Platforms
Both Sides Now: A Brief Reflection on the Two-Sided Market Debate
James Musgrove, Jun 13, 2013
At the 2013 American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law Spring Meeting I had the honor to chair a session...
Should Multisided Markets Receive This Much Attention?
Owen Kendler, Jun 13, 2013
The antitrust community talks perennially about multisided or two-sided markets. At first glance, this attention may appear misplaced. The courts...
The Antitrust Economics of Free
David Evans, May 20, 2011
This article examines antitrust analysis when one of the possible subject products of an antitrust or merger is ordinarily offered...
Emergence of Global Search Engines: Trends in History and Competition
Manish Agarwal, David Round, May 20, 2011
The web search market is an example of a two-sided market where internet users account for one side and...
Jeffrey Rohlfs’ 1974 Model of Facebook: An Introduction and Reprint
Richard Schmalensee, May 17, 2011
Jeffrey Rohlfs' pioneering 1974 study of demand in the presence of network externalities, which make each actor's demand for some good...
How Many Markets are Two-Sided?
Lapo Filistrucchi, Jan 07, 2011
There is a lot of talk nowadays, among competition policy practitioners, about two-sided markets and two-sided platforms. It is indeed...
How Many Markets are Two-Sided?
Lapo Filistrucchi, Jul 27, 2010
There is a lot of talk nowadays, among competition policy practitioners, about two-sided markets and two-sided platforms. It is indeed...
Competition and Innovation: A Non-Zero Sum Approach to Economic Growth
Shanker Singham, Jan 26, 2010
Consumer welfare, which should be the guiding principle of competition policy implementation, is often mistaken for consumer protection.Whereas consumer protection...
The Middle Way on Applying Antitrust to Information Technology
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David Evans, Nov 25, 2009
Antitrust analysis ought to account for special features of...
Multiple Listing Arrangements in Residential Real Estate Transactions: An Antitrust Analysis
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Richard Epstein, Jul 10, 2008
Let me start this short paper on the antitrust...