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Competition and privacy in online markets : evidence from the mobile app industry

Kesler, Reinhold; Kummer, Michael E.; Schulte, Patrick - 2019

Policy makers are increasingly concerned about the combination of market power and massive data collection in digital markets. This concern is fueled by the theoretical prediction that more market power causes firms to collect ever more data from their users. We investigate the relationship...

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Externalities in knowledge production : evidence from a randomized field experiment

Hinnosaar, Marit; Hinnosaar, Toomas; Kummer, Michael E.; … - 2019

Do contributions to online content platforms induce a feedback loop of ever more user-generated content or will they discourage future contributions? To assess this, we use a randomized field experiment which added content to some pages in Wikipedia while leaving similar pages unchanged. We find...

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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023

Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...

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Privacy and platform competition

Dimakopoulos, Philipp; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2018

We analyze platform competition where user data is collected to improve adtargeting. Considering that users incur … overall competition is weak or if targeting benefits are low, too much private data is collected, and vice-versa. Further, we … find that softer competition on either market side leads to more data collection, which implies substitutability between …

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Competition among digital services : evidence from the 2021 meta outage

Rehse, Dominik; Valet, Sebastian - 2025

On October 4, 2021, all services provided by Meta Platforms, Inc. (then Facebook, Inc.) became unavailable unexpectedly for all its worldwide users for a period of about six hours. We use detailed high‐frequency tracking data from smartphones, tablets and desktop computers of thousands of Meta...

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Conceptualizing Open Data ecosystems : a timeline analysis of Open Data development in the UK

Heimstädt, Maximilian; Saunderson, Fred; Heath, Tom - 2014

In this paper, we conceptualize Open Data ecosystems by analysing the major stakeholders in the UK. The conceptualization is based on a review of popular Open Data definitions and business ecosystem theories, which we applied to empirical data using a timeline analysis. Our work is informed by a...

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