报告题目：
Mergers between On-Demand Service Platforms: The Impact on Consumer Surplus and Labor Welfare
报告人：
林晓刚 博士（华南理工大学）
时间：2019年3月26日 16:45-17:30。
地点：管理学院第二会议室。
报告内容摘要：
This paper studies the impact of mergers between on-demand service platforms on consumer surplus and labor welfare. We analyze a game-theoretical model in which customers choose between platforms based on prices and expected waiting times, and agents base decisions about which platform to work for on wages and the probability of getting jobs. Driven by these two features, we find that mergers between on-demand service platforms have several welfare implications that have not been documented by previous research. While a merger reduces competition, we show that customers may benefit from a merger due to the risk-pooling effect and reduced waiting times; moreover, if customers are very sensitive to delay, this benefit can spill over to the labor force via cross-side network externalities. We further establish that a win-win-win outcome, in which merging firms, customers and agents are all better off, can always be achieved if the merged platform commits to certain ratios between prices and wages. This implies that antitrust agencies can enforce restrictions on the payout ratios to protect both consumers and agents. Finally, we illustrate our main insights by implementing our model in numerical experiments calibrated using real data from large on-demand ride-sharing platforms.
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【林晓刚个人简介】
林晓刚博士，现华南理工大学工商管理学院应届博士生。主要研究方向为共享经济下的运作管理、博弈论、市场营销、双边市场的定价问题等，其主要成果在Omega-International Journal of Management Science、Journal of the Operational Research Society、Ergodic Theory & Dynamical Systems、Journal of Systems Science and Systems Engineering等国外知名期刊发表。且目前该讲座报告论文投稿于国际顶尖期刊Management Science并处于第一轮修改中。
