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Article Dans Une Revue International Journal of Industrial Organization Année : 2019

Platform competition: Who benefits from multihoming?

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Competition between two-sided platforms is shaped by the possibility of multihoming (i.e., some users joining both platforms). If initially both sides singlehome, each platform provides users on one side exclusive access to its users on the other side. If then one side multihomes, platforms compete on the singlehoming side and exert monopoly power on the multihoming side. This paper explores the allocative effects of such a change from single- to multihoming. Our results challenge the conventional wisdom, according to which the possibility of multihoming hurts the side that can multihome, while benefiting the other side. This in not always true, as the opposite may happen or both sides may benefit.

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hal-02137757 , version 1 (23-05-2019)

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Martin Peitz, Paul Belleflamme. Platform competition: Who benefits from multihoming?. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2019, 64, pp.1-26. ⟨10.1016/j.ijindorg.2018.03.014⟩. ⟨hal-02137757⟩
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