Der Beitrag analysiert mögliche spezielle Wettbewerbsprobleme, die in Medienmärkten auftreten können, und ihre Implikationen für die Wettbewerbsordnung. Es wird beleuchtet, ob klassische medienspezifische Wettbewerbsprobleme in der Digitalwirtschaft noch bestehen und welche neuen...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

News media operate in two-sided markets, offering bundles of content to readers as well as selling readers' attention to advertisers. Technological innovations in content delivery, such as the advent of broadcast television or of the Internet, affect both sides of the market, threatening the...

Media market structures are changing constantly. Traditional media outlets such as newspapers are being hard-hit by the digitalization of content, causing market exit and long-term consolidation in many countries. Competition policy in media markets is not only concerned with this trend because...

Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...

Media market structures are changing constantly. Traditional media outlets such as newspapers are being hard-hit by the digitalization of content, causing market exit and long-term consolidation in many countries. Competition policy in media markets is not only concerned with this trend because...

Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...

Contents: Preface -- 1. Media economics research: a history of the field / Alan B. Albarran -- 2. Advancing media economics research through theory / Marianne Barrett and Chun Shao -- 3. Research traditions in media economics / Amy Jo Coffey -- 4. Global digital networks and global media...

"The text provides advanced undergraduate, and postgraduate, students with an introduction to the key theoretical perspectives in both media theory and development studies. It also brings these two bodies of theory into dialogue with each other, by examining the ways in which both media and...

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...

This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...