Singer, Hal J.; Sidak, J. Gregory - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 3, pp. 372-396
This paper argues that a cable operator with sufficient market power in the downstream multi-channel video programming … impaired dynamic efficiency. Further, market dominance by cable operators may harm consumers of video programming through … higher prices and less choice in the downstream MVPD market. The reason is that as unaffiliated video programming becomes …