Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/179363 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 17-05
Publisher: 
University of Mannheim, Department of Economics, Mannheim
Abstract: 
Competition between two-sided platforms is shaped by the possibility of multihoming. If users on both sides singlehome, each platform provides users on either side exclusive access to its users on the other side. In contrast, if users on one side can multihome, platforms exert monopoly power on that side and compete on the singlehoming side. This paper explores the allocative effects of such a change from single- to multihoming. Our results challenge the conventional wisdom, according to which the possibility of multihoming hurts the side that can multihome, while benefiting the other side. This is not always true: the opposite may happen or both sides may benefit.
Subjects: 
Network effects
two-sided markets
platform competition
competitive bottle-neck
multihoming
JEL: 
D43
L13
L86
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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