An Instant Classic: Rochet Tirole, Platform Competition in Two Sided Markets
The press release announcing that Jean Tirole had been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences noted that he had aEURoemade important theoretical research contributions in a number of areas.aEUR One of his most important contributions was the discovery and pioneering analysis of multi sided platforms in his 2003 paper with Jean Charles Rochet, Platform Competition in Two Sided Markets.