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An Equilibrium Model of User Generated Content
Ahn, Dae-Yong; Duan, Jason A.; Mela, Carl F. - NET Institute - 2011
dominates in network growth. We find that decreasing content consumption costs (perhaps by changing site design or via search …
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Market Entry in E-Commerce
Kasy, Maximilian; Kummer, Michael - NET Institute - 2008
We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation...
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - NET Institute - 2004
Digital products such as movies, music and computer software are protected both by self-help measures such as encryption and copy controls, and by the legal right to prevent copying. We explore how digital rights management and other technical protections a®ect the pricing of content, and...
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Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Testing a Law and Economics Approach to Standard Form Contracts
Bakos, Yannis; Marotta-Wurgler, Florencia; Trossen, David R. - NET Institute - 2009
A cornerstone of the law and economics approach to standard form contracts is the Òinformed minorityÓ hypothesis: in competitive markets, a minority of term-conscious buyers is enough to discipline sellers from offering unfavorable boilerplate terms. The informed minority argument is widely...
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Migration Between Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary; CreÌmer, Jacques; Veiga, AndreÌ - NET Institute - 2013
We develop a model of dynamic platform formation under positive platform externalities. Users can switch between an incumbent and entrant platforms, switching opportunities arise stochastically and users can choose whether to accept or reject an opportunity to switch. For homogeneous users, we...
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Switching Costs and Introductory Pricing in the Wireless Service Industry
Ale, Jorge - NET Institute - 2013
In this article I analyze the effects of a recent reform intended to decrease switching costs in the cellular industry. The reform, implemented in Chile in 2012, allowed cell phone users to switch operators without any contract restriction while keeping their wireless number. Its aim was the...
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Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion in Two-Sided Markets
Bar-Gill, Sagit - NET Institute - 2013
Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they are endogenously determined. We model an expansion...
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The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition
Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - NET Institute - 2012
This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a favorable coordination bias in the market, in that the two sides are more likely to join the advantaged platform. We find that the degree of the coordination...
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Electronic Health Information Exchange, Competition, and Network Effects
Desai, Sunita - NET Institute - 2014
information may be a barrier to the development of a health information network. Health information networks are designed to … considered a promising tool to improve quality, costs, and efficiency of health care. Federal and state governments have invested … enter a health information network given this potential loss of competitive advantage. Guided by implications of the model …
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Sequential selling and information dissemination in the presence of network effects
Zhou, Junjie; Chen, Ying-Ju - NET Institute - 2014
selling still boosts up the seller's profit. Embedding a physical network with arbitrary payoff externality among customers …
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