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Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion in Two-Sided Markets

Bar-Gill, Sagit - NET Institute - 2013

Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they are endogenously determined. We model an expansion...

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Market Entry in E-Commerce

Kasy, Maximilian; Kummer, Michael - NET Institute - 2008

We analyze the behavior of start-ups in e-commerce, namely on Austria's leading price-comparison-site, a multi-product environment with almost complete information. We use weekly panel data on price-quotes of digicams, Audio/HiFi-equipment and hardware. We furthermore use advanced estimation...

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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS

Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003

We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of … from personal communications services (PCS) firms. Entry by PCS competitors differed across geographic markets due to the … upgrade their technology from the old analog technology to the new digital technology in markets with more entry, suggesting …

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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007

welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September …

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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007

In this paper, we evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local phone service in New York State … first quarter of 2003. Our results indicate that as a result of entry households that subscribe to one of the entrants … nature of the data, we decompose the households' overall gains from entry and find that benefits due to firm differentiation …

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Pricing and Multi-Market Contact in the Cable TV Industry

Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2008

This paper links empirical literature on the use of price as an entry deterring mechanism with literature on the effect … incumbent cable TV firms use price to deter entry by telecom overbuilders as well as cities with municipal utilities. There is … evidence that incumbents use price to deter cable overbuilders. In addition to linking entry deterrence with multi …

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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities

Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012

The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...

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Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs

Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2010

This paper investigates how switching costs affect product compatibility and market dynamics in network industries. A reduction in the switching cost makes the firms' products more attractive relative to the outside good, which diminishes the market expansion benefit of making products...

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The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition

Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - NET Institute - 2012

This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a favorable coordination bias in the market, in that the two sides are more likely to join the advantaged platform. We find that the degree of the coordination...

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Price Discrimination in a Two-Sided Market: Theory and Evidence from the Newspaper Industry

Angelucci, Charles; Cage, Julia; Nijs, Romain de - NET Institute - 2013

We investigate theoretically and empirically the determinants of second-degree price discrimination in two-sided markets. We build a model in which a newspaper must attract both readers and advertisers. Readers are uncertain as to their future benefit from reading, and heterogeneous in their...

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