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    • Matchmakers:
      The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

      Many of the most dynamic companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for multiple groups to get together.
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    • What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
      What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
      MatchMkEco
      September 26, 2017 0
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      A lot of exciting things have happened in payments — and commerce, more broadly — over the last three years. PayPal became pals with the card networks and their issuers. India demonetized its ...

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    • Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged
      Vantiv On Attracting And Keeping Developers Engaged
      August 17, 2017 0
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    • Matching with Multilateral Contracts
      Matching with Multilateral Contracts
      August 14, 2017 0
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    • Karen Webster on “The Amazon effect” on payments
      Karen Webster on “The Amazon effect” on payments
      MatchMkEco
      September 27, 2017 0
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      By Karen Webster We spend a lot of time talking about the impact of the “Amazon Effect” on traditional retail’s current misfortunes. But there’s another “Amazon Effect” which goes largely ignored, and which could be ...

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    • An exciting future for Uber and Yandex
      An exciting future for Uber and Yandex
      September 26, 2017 0
      5561
    • What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
      What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t
      September 26, 2017 0
      6494
    • The Sharing Economy Trend Comes to Weddings
      The Sharing Economy Trend Comes to Weddings
      September 25, 2017 0
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    • An Inconvenient Apple Pay Truth
      An Inconvenient Apple Pay Truth
      August 17, 2017 0
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    ECONOMIC PAPERS

    • Media See-Saws: Winners and Losers in Platform Markets
      Media See-Saws: Winners and Losers in Platform Markets
      MatchMkEco
      September 19, 2017 0
      4951

      By Simon P. Anderson (University of Virginia) &  Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim) We customize the aggregative game approach to oligopoly to study media platforms which may differ by popularity. Advertiser, platform, and consumer surplus are ...

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    • Mobile Money
      Mobile Money
      September 19, 2017 0
      2374
    • Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin Payment System
      Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin
      September 19, 2017 0
      4028
    • A Comprehensive Look at Short-Term Rentals: A Spatial Economic Analysis of Seattle
      A Comprehensive Look at Short-Term Rentals: A Spatial Economic Analysis
      September 19, 2017 0
      4396
    • Second-Degree Price Discrimination by a Two-Sided Monopoly Platform
      Second-Degree Price Discrimination by a Two-Sided Monopoly Platform
      September 6, 2017 0
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    Podcasts: The Matchmakers is In

    • BLOG September 27, 2017
      Karen Webster on “The Amazon effect” on payments

      Karen Webster on “The Amazon effect” on payments

      BLOG September 26, 2017
      An exciting future for Uber and Yandex

      An exciting future for Uber and Yandex

      BLOG, WHAT IS NEW September 26, 2017
      What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t

      What Walmart Pay Knows That Apple Pay Doesn’t

    ANTITRUST PAPERS

    • Regulating a Revolution: From Regulatory Sandboxes to Smart Regulation
      Regulating a Revolution: From Regulatory Sandboxes to Smart Regulation
      MatchMkEco
      September 19, 2017 0
      5108

      By Dirk A. Zetzsche (ADA Chair in Financial Law), Ross P. Buckley (University of New South Wales), Douglas W. Arner & Janos Nathan Barberis (The University of Hong Kong) Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, financial ...

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    • Obfuscation and Shrouding with Network Effects – The Facebook/WhatsApp Case
      Obfuscation and Shrouding with Network Effects - The Facebook/WhatsApp Case
      September 19, 2017 0
      6585
    • The Antitrust Economics of Two-Sided Markets
      The Antitrust Economics of Two-Sided Markets
      September 7, 2017 0
      4970
    • Regulating ‘Platform Power’
      Regulating 'Platform Power'
      August 14, 2017 0
      2902
    • Dissecting Professor Wu and Yelp’s Local Search Study: An Antitrust Law Analysis of The ‘Experimental Evidence’
      Dissecting Professor Wu and Yelp's Local Search Study: An Antitrust
      August 14, 2017 0
      2413

    Uber, Airbnb, OpenTable: Modern Matchmakers

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