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Vellodi, Nikhil - 2018

I study the impact of consumer reviews on the incentives for firms to participate in the market. Firms produce goods of heterogeneous, unknown quality that is gradually revealed via consumer reviews, and face both entry and exit decisions. A platform combines past reviews to construct...

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Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses : Evidence from the Mobile App Market

Wen, Wen - 2019

This paper studies the impact of platform-owner entry threat on complementors in platform-based markets. We examine how app developers on the Android mobile platform adjust innovation efforts (rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to the threat of Google's entry into their...

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The Production of Information in an Online World : Is Copy Right?

Cagé, Julia; Hervé, Nicolas; Viaud, Marie-Luce - 2019

This paper documents the extent of copying and estimates the returns to originality in online news production. We build a unique dataset combining all the online content produced by French news media during the year 2013 with new micro audience data. We develop a topic detection algorithm that...

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Can Free-Shipping Hurt Online Retailers? Evidence from Online Grocery Shopping

Gil, Ricard; Korkmaz, Evsen; Sahin, Ozge - 2020

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

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Content Aggregation by Platforms : The Case of the News Media

Chiou, Lesley; Tucker, Catherine - 2017

The digitization of content has led to the emergence of platforms that draw information from multiple sources. Policymakers are concerned that these new platforms threaten incentives for the production of original content. As a result, policymakers are contemplating regulations that would force...

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Assessing the Value of Network Security Technologies

Cavusoglu, Huseyin; Cavusoglu, Hasan - 2014

Proper configuration of security technologies is critical to balance the access and protection requirements of information. The common practice of using a layered security architecture that has multiple technologies amplifies the need for proper configuration because the configuration decision...

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Competitive Pressure and the Adoption of Complementary Innovations

Kretschmer, Tobias; Miravete, Eugenio J.; Pernías … - 2014

Liberalization of the European automobile distribution system in 2002 limits the ability of manufacturers to impose vertical restraints, leading to a substantial restructuring of the industry and increasing the competitive pressure among dealers. We estimate an equilibrium model of profit...

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Heterogeneity and Information Spillovers in Web Service Sourcing

Deltas, George; Hong, Seung-Hyun - 2014

services. To this end, we develop a theoretical model that relates these factors to firms' decisions to outsource or use in …, we investigate why insourcing of web services is much more prevalent than outsourcing. We find that insourcing is likely … account for the dominance of insourcing over outsourcing. Therefore, differences in firm choices with regard to web services …

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Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption

Tucker, Catherine - 2014

This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made by a business-to- usiness manufacturer to banking employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001...

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Informational Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development

Blatter, Marc; Niedermayer, Andras F. - 2008

We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source project. The former provides a publicly available signal about their talent, whereas the latter provides a signal only observed by their employer. We show that a talented employee may initially...

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