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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 2015

We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …

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Ownership, location and prices in chinese electronic commerce markets

Zhao, Dongmei; Savage, Scott J.; Chen, Yongmin - In: Information economics and policy : IEP 20 (2008) 2, pp. 192-207

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Hotel rankings of online travel agents, channel pricing, and consumer protection

Hunold, Matthias; Kesler, Reinhold; Laitenberger, Ulrich - 2018

We investigate whether online travel agents (OTAs) assign hotels worse positions in their search results if these set lower hotel prices at other OTAs or on their own websites. We formally characterize how an OTA can use such a strategy to reduce price differentiation across distribution...

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The impact of price adjustment costs on price dispersion in e-commerce

Böheim, René; Hackl, Franz; Hölzl-Leitner, Michael - 2019

We analyze price dispersion using panel data from a large price comparison site. We use past pricing behavior to instrument for potential endogeneity that might result from the selection of firms to certain product markets. We find that greater price adjustment costs result in greater price...

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Two-sided markets and electronic intermediaries

Jullien, Bruno (contributor) - 2004

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...

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99 cent : price points in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

Basu (2006) argues that the prevalence of 99 cent prices in shops can be explained with rational consumers who disregard the rightmost digits of the price. This bounded rational behaviour leads to a Bertrand equilibrium with positive markups. We use data from an Austrian price comparison site...

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An empirical study of pricing strategies in an online market with high-frequency price information

Ellison, Sara; Snyder, Christopher M. - 2014

We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....

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99 cent : price points in e-commerce

Hackl, Franz; Kummer, Michael E.; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - In: Information economics and policy : IEP 26 (2014), pp. 12-27

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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Optimal cover prices and the effects of website provision on advertising and magazine demand

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002

I derive and estimate a model for cover price setting in print media markets where actors are faced by two interrelated demand curves: the demand for the print medium and the demand for advertising space. Publicly available data on German women's magazines observed between 1998 and 2001 are used...

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