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We analyze a market where firms compete in a conventional and an electronicretail channel. Consumers easily compare prices online, but some incur purchaseuncertainties on the online channel. We investigate the market shares of the two retailchannels and the prices that are charged. We find that...
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We extend the theory of tax incidence under Cournot-Nash oligopolistic competition to study the effects of an ad valorem sales tax on Web services (so-called Web Tax) that are provided free of charge to users, and produce advertising space sold to businesses. Ads are more valuable to advertisers...
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We consider the spatial competition between two traditional physical (or offline) retailers and an Internet (or online …
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duopoly where firms compete in two spatially separated markets. We show that firms always have nonnegative incentives to … elektronische Koordination und in verstärkte Produktdifferenzierung in einem Duopol mit räumlich getrennten Märkten. Wir zeigen …
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duopoly where firms compete in two spatially separated markets. We show that firms always have nonnegative incentives to … elektronische Koordination und in verstärkte Produktdifferenzierung in einem Duopol mit räumlich getrennten Märkten. Wir zeigen …
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new challenges for theoretical explanations of observed Internet prices …
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validated the model in that way, we calibrate it to eBay data to quantify the speed of learning. We find that ratings can be …
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We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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In this note I examine price competition between two sellers who sequentially arrive to an online consumer-to-consumer market (e.g., Craigslist). Each seller has one unit of a homogeneous good that they want to sell to a pool of buyers. When buyers arrive randomly to the market, I show that...
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