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Platform Competition and Interoperability : The Net Fee Model
Ekmekci, Mehmet; White, Alexander; Wu, Lingxuan - 2022
We study the effects of competition and interoperabilty in platform markets. To do so, we adopt an approach of competition in net fees, which is well-suited to situations where users pay additional charges, after joining, for on-platform interactions. Compared to other approaches, net fees...
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Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare : A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market
Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - 2016
This paper studies (1) whether, from a welfare point of view, oligopolistic competition leads to too few or too many products in a market, and (2) how a change in competition affects the number and the composition of product offerings. We address these two questions in the context of the U.S....
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E-Book Pricing and Vertical Restraints
De los Santos, Babur; Wildenbeest, Matthijs R. - 2014
This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...
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Bundling and Collusion in Communications Markets
Baranes, Edmond - 2008
sustainability of collusion in an infinitely repeated game framework. We show that the bundling strategy of the entrant might hinder … collusion. Futhermore, we consider a setting in which the entrant uses a one-way access that the incumbent possesses. In such … might increase the feasibility of collusion. This result has an important policy implication …
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Platform Liability and Innovation
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo - 2021
We study an e-commerce platform’s incentives to delist IP-infringing products and the effects of introducing a liability regime that induces the platform to increase its screening intensity. We identify conditions under which platform liability is socially desirable (respectively, undesirable)...
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Recommended for You : The Effect of Word of Mouth on Sales Concentration
Hervas-Drane, Andres - 2015
I examine the role of word of mouth in consumer's product discovery process and its implications for the firm. A monopolist supplies an assortment of horizontally differentiated products and consumers search for a product that matches their taste by sampling products from the assortment or by...
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The Impacts of Shopbots on Online Consumer Search
Zhang, Jie (Jennifer); Jing, Bing - 2014
Online price comparison agents (shopbots) allow consumers to instantaneously receive price and other information from many online retailers. Online consumer clickstream data from ComScore Inc. demonstrate that consumers are increasingly using shopbots to conduct search. This phenomenon raises...
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Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - 2009
In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network externalities. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect network externalities to develop an explanation why...
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Ratings Design and Barriers to Entry
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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The Effect of the Internet on Newspaper Readability
Salami, Abdallah; Seamans, Robert - 2014
How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000-2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet penetration and newspaper readability. This result appears...
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