L’économie des plateformes: dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

Marty, Frédéric

L’économie des plateformes: dissipation ou concentration de la rente ?

Abstract: The platform 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)
Date: 2017-12-04
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Published in Irina Parachkévova; Marina Teller. Quelle régulations pour l’économie collaborative? Un défi pour le droit économique, Dalloz, pp.125-144, 2017, Quelle régulations pour l’économie collaborative? Un défi pour le droit économique, 978-2-247-17602-1

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