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A cautionary note on using hotelling models in platform markets

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  • Jeitschko, Thomas D.
  • Kim, Soo Jin
  • Yankelevich, Aleksandr

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We study a Hotelling framework in which customers first pay a monopoly platform to enter the market before deciding between two competing services on opposite ends of a Hotelling line. This setup is common when modeling competition in Internet content provision. We find that standard taken-for-granted solution methods under full market coverage break down, and that in the unique full-coverage equilibrium, the competing service providers set substantially lower prices. Standard methods and prices are restored by giving service providers the first move.

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  • Jeitschko, Thomas D. & Kim, Soo Jin & Yankelevich, Aleksandr, 2018. "A cautionary note on using hotelling models in platform markets," DICE Discussion Papers 286, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE).
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    Keywords

    Hotelling Model; First Mover Advantage; Two-Sided Market;
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    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
    • L0 - Industrial Organization - - General

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