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Platform Siphoning: Ad-Avoidance and Media Content
Anderson, Simon P; Gans, Joshua - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Content providers rely on advertisers to pay for content. TiVo, remote controls, and pop-up ad blockers are examples of ad-avoidance technologies that allow consumers to view content without ads, and thereby siphon off the content without paying the ‘price.’ We examine the content...
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Tying-in Two-Sided Markets and the Honour All Cards Rule
Rochet, Jean-Charles; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Payment card associations offer both debit and credit cards and, until recently, engaged in a tie-in on the merchant side through the so-called honour-all-cards (HAC) rule. The HAC rule came under attack on the grounds that the credit and debit card markets are separate markets and that the...
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Do Political Blogs Matter? Corruption in State-Controlled Companies, Blog Postings, and DDoS Attacks
Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Though new media has become a popular source of information, it is less clear whether or not they have a real impact on economic activity. In authoritarian regimes, where the traditional media are not free, this impact might be especially pronounced. We study consequences of blog postings of a...
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Advertising and the Distribution of Content
Weeds, Helen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
distribution of content to pay TV and free-to-air broadcasters, and for internet distribution of content. …
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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across firms. We show that in models for such markets there are typically multiple equilibria because...
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Does the 'New Economy' Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past?
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
past, not in the future. The Internet fails as a Great Invention because much of its use involves substitution of existing … activities from one medium to another, because much Internet investment involves defence of market share rather than creation of … something of social value, because much Internet activity duplicates existing activity like mail order catalogues, while the …
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Chicken and Egg: Competing Matchmakers
Caillaud, Bernard; Jullien, Bruno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
intermediation on the Internet by allowing registration and transaction prices, and multiple registration. When only registration …
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Can we Trust Private Firms as Suppliers of Vaccines for the Avian Influenza?
Forslid, Rikard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
may be tempted, in a socially non-optimal way, to delay the introduction of vaccines against new infections until the …
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Vaccines vs. Preventives
Kremer, Michael; Snyder, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Preventives are sold ex ante, before disease status is realized, while treatments are sold ex post. Even if the mean of the ex ante distribution of consumer values is the same as that ex post, the shape of the distributions may differ, generating a difference between the surplus each product can...
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On the Optimal Production Capacity for Influenza Vaccine
Forslid, Rikard; Herzing, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper analyses the profit maximising capacity choice of a monopolistic vaccine producer facing the uncertain event of a pandemic in a homogenous population of forward-looking individuals. For any capacity level the monopolist solves the intertemporal price discrimination problem within the...
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