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Piracy of digital products : a critical review of the economics literature
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2003
Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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Transparency and tacit collusion in a differentiated market
Schultz, Christian - 2002
This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from underbutting the collusive price. It also decreases the punishment...
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
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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The impact of the internet on user-driven innovation usage in R&D departments : a case study of Poland
Szopik-Depczyńska, Katarzyna; Barczak, Agnieszka; … - In: European research studies 23 (2020) 5, pp. 247-263
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Populism and polarization in social media without fake news : the vicious circle of biases, beliefs and network homophily?
Hakobyan, Zaruhi; Koulovatianos, Christos - 2020
suggest a search and matching mechanism behind network formation of friends, claiming that the internet has made search and … matching less costly and more intensive. According to our simulations, just combining the internet's ease of forming networks …
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Voting advice applications and elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino L.; Schelker, Mark; … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
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Backwardness advantage and economic growth in the information age : a cross-country empirical study
Vu, Khuong; Asongu, Simplice - 2020
derives theoretical grounds from the existing economic models to support the hypothesis that the internet, inter alia, enables … evidence to show that the growth landscape has indeed shifted decisively in favor of developing countries in the Internet Age … gains from internet adoption in comparison to the average advanced country. The paper discusses policy implications from the …
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Antitrust failures : the internet giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990829
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Antitrust for internet gianst
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James H. - 2018
There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
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