Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediaries

Bruno Jullien

No 1345, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the two-sided market literature, as well as to discuss some new aspects. The first part concentrates on a monopoly intermediation service and discusses both efficient pricing and monopoly pricing. The second part discusses the nature of competition between intermediaries, addressing issues as competitive crosssubsidies, multi-homing or tying.

Keywords: intermediation; two-sided market; network; cross-subsidy; tying (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 D85 L12 L13 L14 L40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mic and nep-net
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