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The Role Of Coordination Bias In Platform Competition, Hanna Halaburda, Yaron Yehezkel
The Role Of Coordination Bias In Platform Competition, Hanna Halaburda, Yaron Yehezkel
Hanna Halaburda
This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a favorable coordination bias in the market, in that for this platform it is less costly than for the other platform to convince customers that the two sides will coordinate on joining it. We find that the degree of the coordination bias affects the platform's decision regarding the business model (i.e., whether to subsidize buyers or sellers), the access fees and the size of the platform. A slight increase in the coordination bias may induce the advantaged platform to switch …