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Lindbeck, Assar; Wikström, Solveig - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper discusses how ICT and emerging electronic commerce in consumer products influence the relative efficiency in production of households and firms, resulting in changes in the division of tasks between these two types of agents. Increased information and competence of households, in...

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Efficiency and the Provision of Open Platforms

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Private firms may not have efficient incentives to allow third-party producers to access their platform or develop extensions for their products. Based on a two-sided market model, I discuss two reasons for why. First, a private firm may not be able to internalize all benefits from cross-group...

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Immediate Agreement in Interdependent Bilateral Bargaining

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This note provides sufficient conditions for immediate agreement in an extensive form model of interdependent bilateral bargaining. The model is suggested by Björnerstedt and Stennek (2006) as a work horse for studying bilateral oligopoly. The key feature of this model is that the firms are...

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Bilateral Oligopoly

Björnerstedt, Jonas; Stennek, Johan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

In intermediate goods markets, both buyers and sellers normally have market power, and sales are based on bilaterally negotiated contracts specifying both price and quantity. In our model, pairs of buyers and sellers meet in bilateral but interdependent Rubinstein-Ståhl negotiations. The...

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Open Versus Closed Platforms

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper studies an industry in which firms can choose to provide open or closed platforms. Open platforms, as opposed to closed, are extendable so third-party producers can develop extensions for them. Building on a two-sided market model, I show that firms might prefer to commit to keeping...

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Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers "on the other side" of the Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that...

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Strategic Interaction vs. Regulatory Compliance among Regulated Utilities: The Swedish Water Sector

Lundin, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This study provides the first empirical test of strategic interactions in the pricing decisions of regulated utilities. Since publicly owned water utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring municipalities should not affect the own price other than...

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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...

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Attention Manipulation and Information Overload

Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

When a decision-maker’s attention is limited, her decisions depend on what she focuses on. This gives interested … parties an incentive to manipulate not only the substance of communication but also the decision-maker’s attention allocation …. This paper models such attention manipulation. In its presence, competitive information supply can reduce the decision …

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General Search Market Equilibrium

Albrecht, James W.; Axell, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

In this paper we extend models of “search market equilibrium” to incorporate general equilibrium considerations. The model we treat is one with a single product market and a single labor market. Imperfectly informed individuals follow optimal strategies in searching for a suitably low price...

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