.e., PaaS and SaaS services.) In this paper, we examine how several key economic factors will likely affect competition in SaaS …

regime is not always beneficial to the platforms as it can intensify competition for subscribers. As platforms have a …

programming. Competition for viewers of the demographics most desired by advertisers implies that programming choices will be … too extreme as broadcasters strive to avoid ruinous subscription price competition, but strong advertising demand may lead … to strong competition for viewers and hence minimum differentiation (la pensee unique). Markets (such as newspapers) with …

This Paper examines competition between a dominant network and a challenging network with third-degree or perfect price … competition and reduces average equilibrium prices. Because bandwagon effects are due to the incompatibility of networks, under … incentives to unilaterally degrade the quality for some targeted group of consumers in order to weaken competition. …

government regulation may reduce transaction costs, intensifying the competition associated with a given market structure, and we …

substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyse a simple Cournot model that … competition, and thus that competition only among state-owned enterprises may be ineffectual in stimulating them to increase …

of equilibria with non-exclusivity is that the contracts issued in equilibrium do not implement the optimal action … constraints which capture the non-exclusivity of contracts). …

preference for non-exclusivity even when selling to subscription-funded distributors. The analysis has implications for the …