Description

In this paper, I analyze pricing problems of a monopolistic platform that offers matching services to agents with heterogeneous preferences in multi-sided markets. First, I extend the Marx and Schummer (2021) model to multi-sided markets and show that its main result holds: the allocation of the price level across the sides of the market is not affected by the size imbalance across these sides. I then use preference simulations to address the price level problem in two-sided markets. I find that the optimal price level depends positively on: (i) the size of the market when it is balanced; and (ii) the imbalance of the market when it is unbalanced. The simulations also yield important implications for the relationship between the percentage of unmatched agents and market size and imbalance.