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We analyse the optimal pricing choice of an incumbent firm that sells a good with network externalities and is threatened by the entry of a higher quality variant. In the framework of a vertical differentiation model, we find a necessary and sufficient condition under which quality improvement...
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In this paper we consider a two-stage duopoly game where firms first decide whether to invest in advertising and then … compete in prices. Advertising has two effects: a market enlargement for both firms and a predatory gain for the investing … investment in advertising and that strong product substitutability may induce a coordination problem. …
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advertising receipts. We show that this induces the editors of the newspapers to moderate the political message they display to …
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We analyse the rivalry between two TV-channels competing both on the market for audience and the market for advertising …. We identify the nature of TV-programs emerging from this competition, and the quantity of advertising that TV …
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journals are determined endogenously in the first stage of the game. We show that when the advertising revenues per reader …
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The present note first provides an alternative formulation of the Cancian, Bills and Bergström (1995)- problem which discards the non-existence difficulty and consequently allows to consider some extensions of the TV-newscast scheduling game. The extension we consider consists in assuming that...
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, magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and television (the illustrative example henceforth). Most advertising expenditures are … incurred for these media. They are also mainly supported by advertising revenue. Early work stressed possible market failures … sides are coordinated by broadcasters (or "platforms") that choose ad levels and program types, and advertising finances the …
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It is well known that a pure-strategy Nash equilibrium does not exist for a two-player rent-seeking contest when the contest success function parameter is greater than two. We analyze the contest using the concept of equilibrium in secure strategies, which is a generalization of the Nash...
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In a model of horizontal product differentiation, we show that local monopolies may exist under free entry when capital is perfectly mobile. In contrast both with the situation of restricted entry and with the zero-profit approach to free entry outcomes of Salop (1979), the unit profit rate of...
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We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by intermediaries in auction markets. We argue that while commissions are similar to taxes imposed on buyers and sellers the question of incidence deserves a new treatment in auction markets. We show that an increase...
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