Price Parity Clauses and platform data acquisition

Andreea Enache and Andrew Rhodes

Economics Letters, 2025, vol. 256, issue C

Abstract: Many platforms use Price Parity Clauses (PPCs) to prevent sellers charging lower prices elsewhere. In a setting where PPCs affect platforms’ data acquisition, we show that buyers and sellers may benefit from PPCs when the market is young.

Keywords: Price Parity Clauses; Platforms; Data; Product discovery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 D83 L13 L42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2025.112635

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