Pricing and monetization · Natural experiment exploiting a platform pricing/policy change, with difference-in-differences style comparisons.
For-Sale-by-Owner Platforms and Intermediation Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
S. Li, X. Lu, Z. Wang (2024). For-Sale-by-Owner Platforms and Intermediation Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. Marketing Science. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2022.0245
Plain-English take
Intermediation prices affect participation and transaction outcomes; platform design changes redistribute activity between owners and intermediaries.
How much weight to give this
3/5 Empirical evidence with some design limits
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Natural experiment exploiting a platform pricing/policy change, with difference-in-differences style comparisons.
Online real-estate listings and transactions involving for-sale-by-owner and intermediary services.
Comparison details need confirmation in the full paper.
Only the publisher page was checked; full-text methods are not established.
Double-blind? Blinding was not established from the publisher page; this is not evidence that blinding was or was not used.
Research question
What the authors investigated
For-Sale-by-Owner Platforms and Intermediation Pricing: Evidence from a Natural Experiment?
Design
Natural experiment exploiting a platform pricing/policy change, with difference-in-differences style comparisons.
Sample and setting
Online real-estate listings and transactions involving for-sale-by-owner and intermediary services.
Reported result
What the study found
Intermediation prices affect participation and transaction outcomes; platform design changes redistribute activity between owners and intermediaries.
This is a paraphrase of the source. Check the original paper for definitions, estimates, statistical uncertainty and analysis details.
Scope and transfer
Limitations to keep in view
Identification depends on parallel-trend and no-concurrent-shock assumptions, and housing/platform institutions may limit external validity. The accessible publisher page was used for this listing; correction history was not independently checked.
Possible founder application
Use as a bounded example of for-sale-by-owner platforms and intermediation pricing: evidence from a natural experiment; compare its context and design with your own market before applying its result.
Evidence access
Publisher article page; full-text availability varies and was not established in this review.
Crossref and INFORMS DOI record identify a peer-reviewed Marketing Science natural-experiment study of platform intermediation pricing. Publisher page was directly retrieved; detailed full-text methods were not independently verified.
If only an abstract or metadata was available, the profile is limited to claims supported there. A paper's paywall does not change its evidentiary status, but it limits what we can substantiate from accessible text.