Platform Pricing at Sportscard Conventions
Ginger Jin and Marc Rysman
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Journal of Industrial Economics
July
2014
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Abstract
We study a new data set of US sports card conventions from the perspective of the pricing theory of two-sided markets. Conventions are two-sided because organizers must set fees to attract both consumers and dealers. We present several findings: first, consumer pricing decreases with competition, but pricing to dealers is insensitive to competition and in longer distances even increases with competition. Second, when consumer price is zero (and thus constrained), dealer price decreases more strongly with competition.