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Negative intra-group externalities in two-sided markets

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Two types of agents interact on a pre-existing free platform. Agents value positively the presence of agents of the other type but may value negatively the presence of agents of their own type. We ask whether a new platform can find fees and subsidies so as to divert agents from the existing platform and make a profit. We show that this might be impossible if intragroup negative externalities are sufficiently (but not too) strong with respect to positive intergroup externalities.

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Paul Belleflamme, Eric Toulemonde

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26056

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