relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49692/
title: Platform Transaction Fees and Freemium Pricing
creator: D’Annunzio, Anna
creator: Russo, Antonio
subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
description: We study transaction fees applied by marketplace platforms where sellers (e.g., app developers) adopt freemium pricing. An ad valorem transaction fee reduces quality distortions introduced by the price-discriminating seller, thereby increasing consumer surplus. Moreover, a small fee increases welfare, implying that the agency model may be socially preferable to integration between platform and seller. However, the platform may set the equilibrium fee above the socially optimal level. Providing devices needed to access the marketplace (e.g., phones) induces the platform to raise the fee, whereas providing a product that competes with the seller induces a lower fee.
publisher: TSE Working Paper
date: 2024-09
type: Monograph
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49692/1/wp_tse_1569.pdf
identifier:   D’Annunzio, Anna and Russo, Antonio <https://www.idref.fr/226321347>  (2024) Platform Transaction Fees and Freemium Pricing.  TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1569, Toulouse     
relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129704
language: en