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Platform or Wholesale? Different Implications for Retailers of Online Product

Kwark, Young; Chen, Jianqing; Raghunathan, Srinivasan - NET Institute - 2013

differences between products and increases upstream competition, which benefits the retailer under the wholesale scheme but hurts …' estimated fits to products and softens upstream competition, which hurts the retailer under the wholesale scheme and benefits … very different roles in changing upstream competition, and whether the retailer benefits from reviews critically depends on …

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Market Dominance and Barriers to Competition in Financial Trading Venues

Ribeiro, Ricardo - NET Institute - 2008

The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) aims to increase competition and to foster client protection in … of existing trading venues. The directive introduces venue competition in order to achieve better execution and … ultimately lower trading costs. In this paper I address the question of whether fostering competition between alternative trading …

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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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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities

Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012

compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model the direct competition in the e-book platform market through a …

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Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs

Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2010

competition is mild and the market is often fragmented, whereas in the latter, there is fierce price competition when firms are of …

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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 …

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Price Discrimination in a Two-Sided Market: Theory and Evidence from the Newspaper Industry

Angelucci, Charles; Cage, Julia; Nijs, Romain de - NET Institute - 2013

We investigate theoretically and empirically the determinants of second-degree price discrimination in two-sided markets. We build a model in which a newspaper must attract both readers and advertisers. Readers are uncertain as to their future benefit from reading, and heterogeneous in their...

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Optimal Pricing of Access and Secondary Goods with Repeat Purchases: Evidence from Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Fees

Gil, Ricard; Korkmaz, Evsen; Sahin, Ozge - NET Institute - 2014

In this paper we investigate optimal pricing strategies for an online grocery retailer who derives its profits from delivery fees and grocery sales. We base our theoretical framework upon the well-established work of Schmalensee (1981) in two-part pricing, while allowing for repeat purchase...

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Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market

Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - NET Institute - 2014

effects of price discrimination and competition. We use counterfactual simulations to assess how the welfare changes when each …

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