Title
Platform Competition for Throughput in Two-sided Freelance Markets
Abstract
We address the problem of price competition between platforms that facilitate the immediate exchange of services between freelance workers and customers in two-sided markets. We consider two competing platforms that offer identical services to their customers at potentially different prices. The objective of each platform is to maximize its throughput by suitably pricing its services. We assume that customers have a preference or loyalty to the platforms while the workers freelance for the two platforms. Assuming that the resulting interaction between the users is such that their aggregate utility is maximized, we show that for each value of the loyalty, there exists a pure strategy Nash equilibrium and characterize it.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/SPCOM.2018.8724409
2018 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Throughput,Resource management,Pricing,Aggregates,Optimization,Games,Nash equilibrium
Computer vision,Computer architecture,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Throughput
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-9168
978-1-5386-3821-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mansi Sood100.68
Ankur A. Kulkarni210620.95
Sharayu Moharir34717.11