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Difficulty in Measuring Market Power in Two-Sided Markets
Assessing market power in two-sided markets, like digital platforms, is challenging because a firm's influence can differ greatly between the two user groups. For example, a platform might offer a free service to end-users, showing no profit markup on that side. However, it can still possess significant market power by profiting from the other side, such as by earning a margin on user data sold to advertisers without compensating the users who provide it. This makes traditional price-based analysis of market power misleading.
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