Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73759 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 5
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper studies imperfect price competition between two intermediaries in an electronic business-to-business matching market with indirect network externalities. The intermediaries differ with regard to their ownership structure: an independent third party incumbent marketplace competeswith a challenging collaborative buy-side consortium marketplace in terms of attracting buying and selling firms. When firms can register exclusively with at most one intermediary, the incumbent is only able to deter entry if the number of firms taking ownership in the consortium is sufficiently small. Otherwise, the consortium can successfully enter and monopolize the market. When firms can multi-home, i.e. they register simultaneously with both intermediaries, the consortium can always enter while both intermediaries stay in the market with positive profits.
Subjects: 
B2B e-commerce
intermediation
network externalities
matching
JEL: 
C78
L11
L13
L22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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