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Description
We study tying and its implications in a platform economy using the case of Hong Kong’s food delivery market. By “requiring restaurants which use food delivery services to also use order-topickup services”, a delivery platform may obtain unfair advantages against partnering restaurants and competing platforms. We first build a theory model to demonstrate tying’s impact on restaurants. Using consumer order data, we conduct structural estimation to uncover the welfare consequence of such tying practices.