Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency
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Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency∗
We study competitive interaction between two platform providers (such as two suppliers of videogame consoles or operating systems) that mediate between sellers of platform-based products (developers of games or applications) and buyers of such products (users of games or applications). Users and developers first trade with one of the platforms (users purchase videogame consoles and developers s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1287439