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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021

This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...

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Multisided markets and platform dominance

Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019

The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive … internet giants are multisided markets (MSM); their economic rents are "hidden" from the public. On the user-side of the market … rents are not so obvious. This paper addresses the monopolistic/monopsony aspect of the internet giants. In the singlesided …

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Platforms, Entry, and Innovation

Keating, Bryan - 2020

There is vigorous debate over the ability of the current antitrust enforcement regime in the United States to protect against potential reductions in competition caused by large technology companies. Some commentators have argued that current antitrust rules and processes cannot address...

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Platform Market Power

Bamberger, Kenneth A. - 2018

The rise of the platform economy has been the subject of celebration and critique. Platform companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Postmates have been rightfully celebrated as positively disruptive, introducing much–needed competition in industries that have been otherwise over–mature and...

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Reciprocal Privacy Invasion and Taxation on a Portal Site

Domon, Koji - 2014

This paper considers privacy invasion resulting from map services, such as Street View, on the Internet. Reciprocal …

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Social Choices in Platform Design. Technology From a Worker’s Standpoint in Digital Platform Cooperatives

Gnisa, Felix - 2023

Digital technology is a key driver of social inequality in the gig economy, but little is known about how platform technologies can be tailored to workers’ needs. To fill this gap, the article examines social design choices by workers in digital platform cooperatives of the CoopCycle...

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The Dynamics of Entry for Digital Platforms in Two-Sided Markets

Veisdal, Jørgen - 2023

Motivating buyers and sellers to join an empty platform is thought to be a key challenge for firms attempting to launch digital platforms in two-sided markets. According to predictions from extant literature, ’no one joins until everyone joins’. The phenomenon is often referred to as the...

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Rating systems and the end-game effect : when reputation works and when it doesn’t

Belletti, Chiara; Pronkina, Elizaveta; Rossi, Michelangelo - 2024

Do rating systems provide incentives to sellers when they are about to exit a market? Using data from Airbnb, this paper examines how end-of-game considerations affect hosts’ effort decisions. We take advantage of a regulation on short-term rentals in the City of Los Angeles to identify hosts...

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Group Coupons : Interpersonal Bundling on the Internet

Chen, Yongmin; Zhang, Tianle - 2012

Internet by companies such as Groupon. We explain why interpersonal bundling is a profitable strategy in the presence of demand …

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A bottom-up simulation on competition of online interpersonal communication platforms

Fu, Tao; Zou, Liling - In: Journal of economic interaction and coordination 17 (2022) 4, pp. 897-925

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