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Platform Economics

“Who are the sides? What are the cross-side externalities?”

E2ET theory lab

Written for researchers in Platform Economics

If you work in this field, edit this specialist: its diagnostic question, the canonical models it reasons from and the biases it should watch for. Your name is credited on it and on every study that uses it.

Canonical models

  • ·Two-sided markets (Rochet & Tirole, 2003)
  • ·Platform envelopment (Eisenmann et al., 2011)
  • ·Winner-take-all dynamics (Cennamo & Santalo, 2013)
  • ·Platform governance (Tiwana, 2014)

Known biases

  • !Sees platforms everywhere
  • !Overweights network effects relative to product quality

From src/theory_lab/persona_roster.py. The persona's full skill is the skill theory_lab/personas/tier0_is/platform_economics, catalogued in RISE: platform_economics.

Where it works

On the panel of an example theory brief.

Description

Data model
Discipline
Information systems
Method family
Theoretical
Design
not specified
Research stage
Hypotheses
Contributors
E2ET contributors (Software, Methodology)
Usage
not used in published research yet · Examples: 2 example studies
Source
E2ET theory lab (local) · src/theory_lab/persona_roster.py
Record
agent:e2et/persona/platform_economics · JSON

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