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implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction … use our theoretical insights to examine whether leading Internet platforms have non-temporary market power. Based on this …
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Given various recent antitrust investigations on the retail sector, we deal with uncovering demand systems substitution patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs. drugstores). Using the uncovered demand system we...
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Economic theory suggests that gasoline retail markets are prone to collusive behavior. Oligopoly market structures prevail, market interactions occur frequently, prices are highly transparent, and demand is rather inelastic. A recent sector inquiry in Germany backed suspicions of tacit collusion...
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The goal of this paper is to analyze the behaviour of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data … the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a …
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This paper examines whether there is a digital divide in the use of the internet in general and for specific purposes … clickstream of almost 20,000 internet users in the five largest EU economies during 2011. Our main finding is that, for those who … have access to the Internet, the income-based digital divide in internet use has been reversed. Low-income internet users …
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Several studies have examined the market value of paid-for internet services and internet access. This paper estimates … time spent online and opportunity cost of time, to an internet users’ clickstream dataset for the five largest economies in … measure, leisure time spent on the internet generated a consumer surplus of between 0.6 and 1% of full income in 2011 in the …
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This paper presents an innovative database of domestic and bilateral online services trade between 39 countries, including the US, the EU and some emerging market economies. It combines monetized and “free” online services in a single measure based on the volume of page views on websites of...
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Despite the rapidly growing volume and economic importance of data in the digital economy, the legal framework for data ownership, access and trade remains incompletely defined in the EU and elsewhere. De facto data ownership dominates and often leads to fragmentation or anti-commons problems in...
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The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and...
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The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one side and Springer Nature and Wiley on the other side facilitate easy open access publishing for researchers located in Germany. We use a dataset of all publications in chemistry from 2016 to 2020 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582026