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The internet economy : regulatory challenges and practices
Koske, Isabell; Bitetti, Rosamaria; Wanner, Isabelle; … - 2014
The Internet has become an integral part of the everyday life of households, firms and governments. Its proper … Internet depends on its openness and the confidence of users. Designing policies that protect society while allowing for … Internet’s great economic potential to be fulfilled, is a difficult task. This paper investigates this challenge and takes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464865
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Learning from data and network effects : the example of internet search
Schäfer, Maximilian; Sapi, Geza - 2020
The rise of dominant firms in data driven industries is often credited to their alleged data advantage. Empirical evidence lending support to this conjecture is surprisingly scarce. In this paper we document that data as an input into machine learning tasks display features that support the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270849
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Voice assistants as gatekeepers for consumption? - how information intermediaries shape competition
Noskova, Victoriia - 2021
In December 2020, new regulation of digital markets was proposed by European Commission. It specifically addresses main concerns raised by business behavior of operators of core services in their gatekeeping positions. However, voice assistants (or digital personal assistants, DPAs, e.g. Apple's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012795284
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Competition in pricing algorithms
Brown, Zach Y.; MacKay, Alexander - 2019
Increasingly, retailers have access to better pricing technology, especially in online markets. Firms employ automated pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a model of price competition where firms can differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175360
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Dynamic competition, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, and article 102 TFEU : towards a concept of systemic market power?
Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2024
In this paper, we comment on the debate about guidelines for Art. 102 TFEU in the face of the challenges brought by digital ecosystems and abuse of dominance in related markets. We take the perspective of dynamic competition economics and derive four recommendations for the future enforcement of...
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The impact of online competition on local newspapers : evidence from the introduction of craigslist
Djourelova, Milena; Durante, Ruben; Martin, Gregory J. - 2021
for classified advertising from other changes brought about by the Internet, and to compare newspapers that relied more or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012515071
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The competitive landscape of online platforms
Duch-Brown, Néstor - 2017
This paper describes the different forces that shape the market structure of four different "online platform ecosystems" and the competition between them. The paper focuses on the following categories of platforms, which represent a wide scope of online activities: (i) e-commerce marketplaces;...
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Online privacy and market structure : theory and evidence
Sabatino, Lorien; Sapi, Geza - 2019
This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical model capturing the basic trade-off between the degree of privacy intrusion and the informativeness of advertising. We derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969027
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Competitive dynamics, IP litigation and acquisitions : the struggle for positional advantage in the emerging mobile internet
Seppälä, Timo; Kenney, Martin - 2012
competitive landscape of mobile internet, the strategic thinking processes of firms, and the old mobile telecommunications … incumbents and new entrants from internet that are vying for space in the new world of mobile internet. To understand the … entrants into mobile internet) have become two complementary areas of technology. This analysis addresses the necessity for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009625515
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Net neutrality and the incentives (not) to exclude competitors
Dewenter, Ralf; Rösch, Jürgen - 2014
This paper analyses the incentives of a vertical integrated Internet service provider (ISP) to block competitors from … ISP has a local monopoly over its Internet access customers or if network effects are strong. In this case, however, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406425