Platforms · 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
Marketing Science · 2024
Summary
Intermediation prices affect participation and transaction outcomes; platform design changes redistribute activity between owners and intermediaries.
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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.
Reported result
What the study found
Intermediation prices affect participation and transaction outcomes; platform design changes redistribute activity between owners and intermediaries.
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.
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.
Research sources
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.