Title: Market definition of platform markets
Authors: Dewenter, Ralf 
Heimeshoff, Ulrich
Löw, Franziska
Language: eng
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Universitätsbibliothek der HSU / UniBwH
Document Type: Working Paper
Journal / Series / Working Paper (HSU): Diskussionspapier / Helmut-Schmidt-Universität / Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre 
Issue: 176
Publisher Place: Hamburg
Abstract: 
Platform markets are characterized by the existence of indirect network effects that connect two or more market sides through a platform that internalizes these feedback effects. Conventional instruments of market definitions which consider price levels cannot easily applied in case of two-sided platform competition, as price structure of those markets are non-neutral. Instead of using prices, we use time series of quantities and simple correlation analysis to evaluate the substitutional relationship within two-sided media markets. As a benchmark model, we simulate a Cournot duopoly on order to calculate correlation coefficients for varying degrees of product differentiation and indirect network effects.
Organization Units (connected with the publication): VWL, insb. Industrieökonomik 
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