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Competing Against Simulated Equilibrium Price Dispersions: An Experiment On Internet-Assisted Search Markets

García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzís, Nikolaos; … - NET Institute - 2005

In a four-treatment experiment, we test some of the hypotheses in García-Gallego et al. (2004) concerning competition among a number of firms of which some (or all) are indexed by a price-comparison engine facilitating buyers’ search process. In this paper, we isolate individual behavior from...

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Location Decisions of Competing Platforms

Serfes, Konstantinos; Zacharias, Eleftherios - NET Institute - 2009

There are examples of entry in two-sided markets, where first entrants occupy a `central location' and serve agents …

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Risk Attitudes and Internet Search Engines: Theory and Experimental Evidence

García-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzís, Nikolaos; … - NET Institute - 2004

This paper analyzes the impact on consumer prices of the size and biases of price comparison search engines. We develop several theoretical predictions, in the context of a model related to Burdett and Judd (1983) and Varian (1980), and test them experimentally. The data supports the model’s...

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Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets

Liu, Qihong; Serfes, Konstantinos - NET Institute - 2007

We examine the profitability and the welfare implications of price discrimination in two-sided markets. Platforms have information about the preferences of the agents that allows them to price discriminate within each group. The conventional wisdom from one-sided horizontally differentiated...

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Collusion and the political differentiation of newspapers

Antonielli, Marco; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2011

prices and advertising tariffs. We build on the work of Gabszewicz, Laussel and Sonnac (2001, 2002), whose model we take as …), cover prices are positive and the minimal differentiation outcome does not depend on the size of the advertising market. We … to cooperate in setting cover prices and advertising tariffs but not the editorial line …

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