Content provision and compatibility in a platform market

Alexander Rasch and Tobias Wenzel

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 478-481

Abstract: This paper studies the ambiguous welfare effects of compatibility in a platform market with endogenous content provision. Compatibility can be particularly harmful if it leads to reduced content but can be beneficial if content is sufficiently increased.

Keywords: Compatibility; Content creation; Platform; Standard; Two-sided market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 L13 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.012

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