Why Is Platform Pricing Generally Highly Skewed?

Bolt and Tieman (2008) suggested the prevalence of profit function non-concavity may account for the widespread use of skewed pricing by two-sided platform businesses. In both the Rochet-Tirole (2003) and Armstrong (2006) models, however, skewed pricing may simply reflect substantial differences bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmalensee, Richard
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Walter de Gruyter 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77623
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