Two-sided markets, competitive bottlenecks and exclusive contracts

Economic Theory

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 353-380

  Armstrong, Mark ^a   Wright, Julian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Exclusive contracts; Network externalities; Two sided markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249697043     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-006-0114-6     Document Type: Article

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