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, we investigate why insourcing of web services is much more prevalent than outsourcing. We find that insourcing is likely … to generate the higher value for most firms, and lack of information on the efficacy of outsourcing is unlikely to … account for the dominance of insourcing over outsourcing. Therefore, differences in firm choices with regard to web services …
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imposes positive fees on content and applications providers. Similarly, we find that imposing net neutrality in duopoly … increases total surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We …
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imposes positive fees on content and applications providers. Similarly, we find that imposing net neutrality in duopoly … increases total surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We …
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This paper investigates the price war in the UK quality newspaper industry in the 1990s. We build a model of the newspaper market which encompasses demand for differentiated products on both, the readers and advertisers side of the market, and profit maximization by four competing oligopolistic...
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Theories of multi-sided markets suggest that a platform’s pricing strategies on different sides of the market are closely linked, and in particular, an increase in competition on one side may lead to an increase in price on other sides. We empirically examine platforms’ pricing strategies by...
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The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...
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We examine the price decisions in a vertically differentiated duopoly where the decision to buy a good depends not only …
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Local telecommunications competition was an important goal of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September 1999 to March 2003. We address the prevalence of...
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In this paper, we evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local phone service in New York State. Residential local phone service competition was an important goal of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We provide a detailed evaluation of its effects on consumer welfare using...
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