David Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Nov 13, 2012
This paper provides a brief progress report on market definition and the analysis of mergers for multi-sided platforms. It provides an update to an earlier article on multi-sided platform market definition. (For an overview of multi-sided platforms including the antitrust analysis of these platforms see Platform Economics.)
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