PLATFORM COMPETITION WITH ‘MUST-HAVE’ COMPONENTS*

Platform Competition with Endogenous Homing∗

We develop a model for two-sided markets with consumers and producers, who interact through a platform. Typical settings for the model are the market for smartphones with phone users, app producers, and smartphone operating systems; or the video game market with game players, video game producers, and video game consoles. Only consumers who purchase the platform can access content from the prod...

Elections with platform and valence competition

Article history: Received 10 January 2008 Available online 10 December 2008 JEL classification: C72 D72 We study a game in which candidates first choose platforms and then invest in costly valences (e.g., engage in campaign spending). The marginal return to valence depends on platform polarization—the closer platforms are, the more valence affects the election outcome. Consequently, candidates ...

Prescribing tests must have curriculum support

Correspondence: Thomas I Lemon School of Medicine, Cardiff University, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, Wales Email [email protected] Dear Editor Gordon, Catchpole and Baker have discussed and investigated a very interesting, currently relevant, subject in medical education; particularly with the introduction of the prescribing test for undergraduates trialled in the U...

Platform Competition in Telecommunications

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