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The Stackelberg–Armstrong model Sánchez Cartas, Juan Manuel L11 L81 L13 Two-sided platforms Competition Two-sided markets Stackelberg Economía industrial 53 Ciencias Económicas We show that sequential (Stackelberg) competition between two-sided platforms can overturn the price-skewness ranking of the Armstrong (2006) competition benchmark: the side subsidized under simultaneous pricing may become the taxed side under sequential play. The mechanism is that the Stackelberg leader internalizes cross-side feedback through the follower’s best response, which introduces both externalities into each side’s markup and can reverse which side is subsidized. The equilibrium is unique, admits closed-form solutions under standard interiority/concavity conditions, and is directly comparable to Armstrong’s benchmark. Both platforms earn strictly more than under simultaneous play, and we characterize a sharp threshold separating second-mover from first-mover advantage. Fundación Ramón Areces Depto. de Análisis Económico y Economía Cuantitativa Fac. de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) TRUE pub 2026-05-06T12:47:01Z 2026-05-06T12:47:01Z 2026 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/136561 0165-1765 10.1016/j.econlet.2026.113019 1873-7374 eng Sanchez-Cartas, J. M. (2026). The stackelberg–armstrong model. Economics Letters, 265, 113019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2026.113019 Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ open access application/pdf Elsevier