Revenue from matching platforms

We consider the pricing problem of a platform that matches heterogeneous agents using match‐contingent fees. Absent prices, on short side such markets capture relatively greater surplus than those long (Ashlagi et al. 2017). Nevertheless we show need not bias its price allocation toward either side. With independently drawn preferences, optimal decisions are independent market size or imbalance; furthermore, changes in level move both sides' prices same direction. In contrast, preference homogeneity biases direction depends form homogeneity; imbalance opposite directions. These effects arise due to exclusivity matchings two‐sided settings.