Matching & Information Provision by One-Sided and Two-Sided Platforms

Two-sided B2B platforms

This chapter provides a roadmap to the burgeoning literature on two-sided markets with a speci…c focus on BtoB marketplaces. Online intermediation involves two-sided network e¤ects between buyers and sellers, and the implications for optimal BtoB platforms’tari¤s are discussed. The chapter discusses …rst the monopoly case, drawing attention to the distinction between upfront registration fees a...

Two-sided Matching with Incomplete Information∗

Stability in a two-sided matching model with non-transferrable utility and with incomplete information is investigated. Each agent has interdependent preferences which depend on his own type and on the possibly unknown types of agents on the other side of the market. In a one-sided incomplete information model in which workers’ types are private information, a firm joins a worker in a block to ...

A Frictional Matching Model of Two-Sided Platforms

Based on the frictional matching framework, the paper provides a theoretical model for the two-sided platform in which the number of participants on both sides of the platform and the source of network externalities are endogenously determined. The platform is shown to exhibit both positive and negative networks externalities: The utility of a participant is increasing (decreasing) in the numbe...

One - sided Versus Two - sided Error in

On one-sided versus two-sided classification

One-sided classiiers are computable devices which read the characteristic function of a set and output a sequence of guesses which converges to 1 ii the set on the input belongs to the given class. Such a classiier is two-sided if the sequence of its output in addition converges to 0 on sets not belonging to the class. The present work obtains the below mentioned results for one-sided classes (...