Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions
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Platform Pricing at Sports Card Conventions
We study a new data set of US sports card conventions from the perspective of the pricing theory of two-sided markets. Conventions are two-sided because organizers must set fees to attract both consumers and dealers. We present several findings: first, consumer pricing decreases with competition, but pricing to dealers is insensitive to competition and in longer distances even increases with co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Industrial Economics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0022-1821
DOI: 10.1111/joie.12088