I find that interconnection might cause the market to be less competitive, and might lead to an increase in the price firms charge for their product. Absent interconnection, firms compete for a consumer for two reasons. The first reason is to obtain revenue from selling the product to a consumer...

This article extends antitrust analysis to two-sided markets in which a virtual monopolist competes with local bricks-and-mortar dealers. The discussion examines the market power of an Internet market maker as well as an Internet matchmaker. The analysis shows that equilibrium in a two-sided...

We show that in many applied economic models, it is possible to reduce the dimensionality of the space of actions to what we call sufficient decisions. We find that for monopoly and oligopoly in multi-sided markets and multi-product markets, the market equilibrium can be transformed into an...