Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets
Quaderni - Working Paper DSE N° 1165
46 Pages Posted: 28 Sep 2021
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Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets
Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets
Date Written: August 18, 2021
Abstract
We empirically investigate the relevance of multi-homing in two-sided markets. First, we build a micro-founded structural econometric model that encompasses demand for differentiated products and allows for multi-homing on both sides of themarket. We then use an original dataset on the Italian daily newspaper market that includes information on double-homing by readers to estimate readers’ and advertisers’ demand. The results show that an econometric model that does not allow for multi-homing is likely to produce biased estimates of demand on both sides of the market. In particular, on the reader side, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers.
Keywords: two-sided markets, platforms, multi-homing, media, advertising
JEL Classification: C51, D43, L13, L82, M37
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