Matchmakers - The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee
Matchmakers - The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by David S. Evans, Richard Schmalensee
Book Summary
In an increasingly interconnected economic landscape, multisided platforms have emerged as vital intermediaries, reshaping traditional market dynamics. Matchmakers - The New Economics of Multisided Platforms by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee offers a comprehensive exploration of these platforms, revealing how they create value by facilitating interactions between distinct but interdependent groups of users.
- Multisided platforms (MSPs) act as intermediaries that enable interactions between two or more distinct user groups, each benefiting from the presence of the others.
- Network effects are central to MSP success: the value to one group increases as...
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