Multimarket Contact and Platform Competition: Reassessing the Mutual Forbearance Hypothesis
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Keywords
two-sided markets; platform competition; multimarket contact; conglomerate; digital markets;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- L49 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Other
- L86 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2019-10-14 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-IND-2019-10-14 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2019-10-14 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PAY-2019-10-14 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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