 L’économie des plateformes: dissipation ou concentration de la rente?Post-Print from HAL Abstract: The platforms-based economy seems to be the opposite of the rent-based one. On its non-profit acceptation, a platform may participate to the sharing economy, favouring non-market transactions in order to mutualise assets or to share services. On its for-profit acceptation, it provides more efficient matching services and helps to bypass regulations, sometimes harmful in terms of prices and of quality of services. However, a platform might be less a tool of rent dispersion than a vector of its polarisation. High dominance levels based on data and algorithms may allow platforms to implement perfect price discrimination strategies. If these ones may be welfare-enhancing, they involve surplus transfers between economic agents. We discuss the contestability level of these dominant operators by taking into account the counter-strategies of market participants, the extended rivalry hypothesis and the disruptive potential of blockchain. Keywords: data-based economy; algorithms; online platforms; consumer welfare; perfect price discrimination; two-sided markets; blockchain; plateformes; économie de la donnée; algorithmes; plateformes d’intermédiation électroniques; bien-être du consommateur; discrimination parfaite par les prix; marchés biface; chaînes de blocs (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in 2017, 28p There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01515715 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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