Daniel Trabucchi, Tommaso Buganza and Philip Meier
57 episodes
3 days ago
We bring the latest discoveries from the field platform research right into your preferred podcasting app.
Digital platforms are omnipresent in almost all of our daily activities – from booking a fitness class to sending or watching a video clip, going through calling a cab, and ordering a pizza…even listening to this podcast – are mediated by multi-sided platforms.
Talking About Platforms is the place where we discover and try to make sense of the underlying mechanisms that have enabled and facilitated the rise of the platforms. We enter a critical discussion on what they can become for people, companies, and our society.
In every episode we welcome a platform scholar who will share with us one of his/her latest pieces of research, making it accessible to everyone and chatting with us on what platforms are and where they may go in the future.
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We bring the latest discoveries from the field platform research right into your preferred podcasting app.
Digital platforms are omnipresent in almost all of our daily activities – from booking a fitness class to sending or watching a video clip, going through calling a cab, and ordering a pizza…even listening to this podcast – are mediated by multi-sided platforms.
Talking About Platforms is the place where we discover and try to make sense of the underlying mechanisms that have enabled and facilitated the rise of the platforms. We enter a critical discussion on what they can become for people, companies, and our society.
In every episode we welcome a platform scholar who will share with us one of his/her latest pieces of research, making it accessible to everyone and chatting with us on what platforms are and where they may go in the future.
This influential paper by Caillaud and Jullien from 2003 examines imperfect price competition between intermediation service providers, with a particular focus on aspects relevant to informational intermediation on the Internet. The authors analyze three key elements: indirect network externalities, non-exclusive use of multiple intermediaries, and price discrimination based on user identity and behavior. Using a developed model, they explore how these factors influence market structures and pricing strategies in intermediation markets. Key findings include that both efficient and inefficient market structures can emerge in equilibrium. Additionally, intermediaries have incentives to offer non-exclusive services to moderate competition and exert market power. The study provides a detailed analysis of pricing and business strategies employed by intermediation service providers and has significantly contributed to understanding competition dynamics in digital intermediation services, making it foundational for research on two-sided markets and platform economics.
Talking about Platforms
We bring the latest discoveries from the field platform research right into your preferred podcasting app.
Digital platforms are omnipresent in almost all of our daily activities – from booking a fitness class to sending or watching a video clip, going through calling a cab, and ordering a pizza…even listening to this podcast – are mediated by multi-sided platforms.
Talking About Platforms is the place where we discover and try to make sense of the underlying mechanisms that have enabled and facilitated the rise of the platforms. We enter a critical discussion on what they can become for people, companies, and our society.
In every episode we welcome a platform scholar who will share with us one of his/her latest pieces of research, making it accessible to everyone and chatting with us on what platforms are and where they may go in the future.
