Price-Increasing Competition on Two-Sided Markets with Homogeneous Platforms |
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Authors: | Enrico Böhme Christopher Müller |
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Institution: | 1. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Grüneburgplatz 1, 60323, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Abstract: | We make a case for price-increasing competition on “competitive bottleneck” two-sided markets. We argue that demand interrelation might be sufficient to cause either no observable price effect of competition or price-increasing competition. Under price equality, total demand on both market sides in the duopoly market exceeds total demand in the monopoly market. Furthermore, even though there is no observable price effect, there is still a competitive effect that becomes manifest in total duopoly equilibrium profits being strictly smaller than monopoly profits. The relationship of total welfare is ambiguous in subsidization cases, while without subsidization, welfare is strictly greater in duopoly. |
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