Competition in Two-Sided Markets

By Mark Armstrong. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Competition and antitrust in internet markets (2016, background): “A market is typically called two-sided or even multi-sided if indirect network effects are of major importance (Rochet and Tirole, 2003, 2006; Wright, 2004; Armstrong, 2006; Rysman, 2009.”
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models (2013, methodology): “Finally, the paper is related to the literature on platforms and multisided markets (e.g., Rochet and Tirole, 2003; Caillaud and Jullien, 2003; Armstrong, 2006; Hagiu, 2009; Casadesus-Masanell and Ruiz-Aliseda, 2009; Boudreau and Jeppesen, 2011; Seamans and Zhu, 2012; Zhu and Iansiti, 2012).”
Pricing and commitment by two‐sided platforms (2006, background): “This article belongs to the very recent literature on two-sided markets, pioneered by Armstrong (2006), Rochet and Tir?le (2003), and Caillaud and Jullien (2003).”
Opening Platforms: How, When and Why? (2008, background): “Networks with homogenous users are called one-sided to distinguish them from two-sided networks, which have two distinct user groups whose respective members consistently play a single role in transactions (Rochet & Tirole, 2003; Parker & Van Alstyne, 2000, 2005; Armstrong, 2006).”
Network neutrality on the Internet: A two-sided market analysis (2012, positive): “Figure 1 shows the conceptual structure of the Internet connecting consumers and content providers.6 Our setup is based on the standard two-sided market model of Armstrong (2006).”
Digital platform ecosystems (2019, background): “Via the orchestration of transactions, digital platforms create two-sided markets (Armstrong 2006; Rochet and Tirole 2003) that leverage cross-side network effects.”
Regulating Advertising in the Presence of Public Service Broadcasting (2012, methodology): “This effect may overturn the 3Among many others, the assumption of competitive bottlenecks has been applied in Armstrong (2006), Armstrong and Weeds (2007a), Peitz and Valletti (2008), and Crampes et al. (2009).”
Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators (2008, neutral): “For this reason, the thrust of prior work has been on the question of how to get the different sides around an MSP ‘on board’ in large numbers, while setting up a pricing model that maximizes platform profits (e.g. Caillaud and Jullien, 2003; Parker and Van Alstyne, 2005; Rochet and Tirole, 2006; Ar”
Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation (2015, background): “Closer to our work is the burgeoning literature on multi-sided platforms, pioneered by Caillaud and Jullien (2003), Rochet and Tirole (2003), Parker and Alstyne (2005), and Armstrong (2006).”
Net Neutrality and Investment Incentives (2010, positive): “In this regard, the burgeoning literature on two-sided markets may be useful in further analyzing these issues (see Armstrong, 2006 and Rochet and Tirole, 2006 for details).”
Price structure in two-sided markets: Evidence from the magazine industry (2006, methodology): “A key question arising in two-sided markets is how do platforms price to each type of user? Is one side of the market ‘subsidized’ in order to attract the other? Armstrong (2005), Caillaud and Jullien (2003), and Rochet and Tirole (2003) each provide theoretical frameworks of two-sided markets to ex”
Content and Advertising in the Media: Pay-Tv Versus Free-to-Air (2008, background): “JEL Classification: D43, L13 and L82 Keywords: advertising, media, product differentiation and two-sided markets Martin Peitz School of Business Administration International University in Germany”
Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, neutral): “…that contributed to our understanding of platforms also emerged over this time frame: two-sided markets (e.g., Argentesi & Filistrucchi, 2007; Armstrong, 2006; Bolt & Tieman, 2008; Y. Chen & Xie, 2007; Hagiu, 2009; Kaiser & Wright, 2006; Lin, Li, & Whinston, 2011; Rochet & Tirole, 2002,…”