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L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente?

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  • Frédéric Marty

    (GREDEG - Groupe de Recherche en Droit, Economie et Gestion - UNS - Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UniCA - Université Côte d'Azur)

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The platforms-based economy seems to be the opposite of the rent-based one. On its non-profit acceptation, a platform may participate to the sharing economy, favouring non-market transactions in order to mutualise assets or to share services. On its for-profit acceptation, it provides more efficient matching services and helps to bypass regulations, sometimes harmful in terms of prices and of quality of services. However, a platform might be less a tool of rent dispersion than a vector of its polarisation. High dominance levels based on data and algorithms may allow platforms to implement perfect price discrimination strategies. If these ones may be welfare-enhancing, they involve surplus transfers between economic agents. We discuss the contestability level of these dominant operators by taking into account the counter-strategies of market participants, the extended rivalry hypothesis and the disruptive potential of blockchain.

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  • Frédéric Marty, 2017. "L’économie des plateformes : dissipation ou concentration de la rente?," Post-Print halshs-01515715, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01515715
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    Keywords

    data-based economy; algorithms; online platforms; consumer welfare; perfect price discrimination; two-sided markets; blockchain; plateformes; économie de la donnée; algorithmes; plateformes d’intermédiation électroniques; bien-être du consommateur; discrimination parfaite par les prix; marchés biface; chaînes de blocs;
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    JEL classification:

    • K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
    • K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
    • L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
    • L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software

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