A Strategic Guide on Two-Sided Markets Applied to the ISP Market

Thomas Cortade

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper looks at a new body of literature that deals with two-sided markets and focuses on the Internet Service Provider (ISP) segment. ISPs seem to act as a platform enabling transactions between web sites and end consumers. We propose a strategic guide for ISPs that covers features of two-sided markets such as strong externalities and discuss how these market characteristics can affect competition policy.

Keywords: Platform; externalities; price allocation; competition policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L86 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-cse, nep-mic and nep-net
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Published in International Journal of Digital Economics 61 (2006): pp. 17-35

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