Competition and Regulation in Multi-sided platforms Competition Policy International has been at the forefront of the issue of Multi-Sided platforms and its theoretical development since the early days of 2003.…

Two-sided markets is one of the hottest areas in economics and competition policy. Some businesses operate platforms that connect two groups of customers, help those customers interact, and in doing…

David Evans, Aug 029, 2013 This is the second in a series of columns in which I am going to develop the argument that the economics profession now knows that…

What Twitter, the London Stock Exchange, and eHarmony Have in Common and Why the Capital Markets Industry Should Care – David S. Evans (GlobalEcon/UChicago) Supplement to Platform Economics: The Economics of Multi-Sided Businesses – David…

Nov 12, 2013 What Twitter, the London Stock Exchange, and eHarmony Have in Common and Why the Capital Markets Industry Should Care – David S. Evans (GlobalEcon/UChicago) At the turn…

Oct 16, 2013   I’ve written the following articles on multi-sided platforms since the publication of Platform Economics: Essays on Multi-Sided Businesses in December 2011. Hopefully, you’ll find them useful.…

David Evans, Sep 10, 2013   Last week a court appointed expert in the interchange fee litigation in the United States submitted a memorandum that evaluated the economic arguments presented…

David Evans, Aug 06, 2013   If you think there isn’t enough competition in the payments industry, just wait a few years – there will be a lot less in…

David Evans, Mar 13, 2013   In the next several columns I am going to develop the argument that the economics profession now knows that many standard results do not…

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…

David Evans, Richard Schmalensee, Nov 13, 2012 Adapted from the Introduction and Conclusions to The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platforms by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee, which is forthcoming…

David Evans, Feb 14, 2013   There’s an old saying that nothing’s certain but death and taxes. I want to add something else to the list. There are only 168…