Content provision and compatibility in a platform market

Alexander Rasch; Tobias Wenzel

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.012

Content provision and compatibility in a platform market

Alexander Rasch, Tobias Wenzel

Department of Economics

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This paper studies the ambiguous welfare effects of compatibility in a platform market with endogenous content provision. Compatibility can be particularly harmful if it leads to reduced content but can be beneficial if content is sufficiently increased.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	478-481
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	124
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.012
Publication status	Published - Sept 2014

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economic Letters. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Wenzel, T., & Rasch, A. (2014). Content provision and compatibility in a platform market. Economics Letters, 124(3), 478-481. 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.012
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