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Д. Фенг, Т. Лиу, В.В. Мазалов, Д. Зенг.

Ценообразование на сетевых платформах на двухсторонних рынках с гетерогенными агентами и ограничениями на размер рынка

// Математическая Теория Игр и ее Приложения, т. 10, в. 1. 2018. C. 83-98

Keywords: network externalities, monopoly and duopoly platforms, social optimum, heterogeneous agents, two-sided markets, Hotelling model.

We study a two-sided market represented by network platforms and heterogeneous agents. Our setup departs from Armstrong (2006)’s monopoly model by assuming both (1) a continuum of agents of limited size on each side of the market and (2) heterogeneous utility of agents with Hotelling specification. We show that the monopoly’s optimal pricing strategy always results in a corner solution in terms of the equilibrium market share. We also solve for the social planner’s optimization problem and obtain a similar corner solution result. In addition, the exact values for the equilibrium in the case of duopoly for a two-sided market on two platforms are obtained.

DOI: 10.17076/mgta1_5

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