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Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to Content
Rutt, James - NET Institute - 2011
The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of price and quality competition between firms in the online news industry. In equilibrium, firms randomise in their pricing strategies and this generates the cross- sectional...
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Technology Shocks in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers
Seamans, Robert; Zhu, Feng - NET Institute - 2010
Theories of multi-sided markets suggest that a platform’s pricing strategies on different sides of the market are closely linked, and in particular, an increase in competition on one side may lead to an increase in price on other sides. We empirically examine platforms’ pricing strategies by...
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Price Competition in Two-Sided Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers and Network Effects
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Klein, Tobias J. - NET Institute - 2013
prices on both sides of the market, most of the literature has avoided models with Bertrand competition on both sides or has … first presenting intuitive sufficient conditions for demand on each side to be unique given prices on both sides. We then … derive sufficient conditions for the existence and uniqueness of an equilibrium in prices. For merger analysis, or any other …
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Merger Simulation in a Two-Sided Market: The Case of the Dutch Daily Newspapers
Filistrucchi, Lapo; Klein, Tobias; Michielsen, Thomas - NET Institute - 2010
oligopolistic publishers who choose subscription and advertising prices, while taking the interactions between the two-sides of the … simulate the effects of a hypothetical merger on prices and welfare. …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905457
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News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Esfahani, Nikrooz Nasr - NET Institute - 2012
In this paper, we study how the presence of a news aggregator affects competition among (horizontally differentiated) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality on each issue. Our model provides a micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905459
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Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers
Behringer, Stefan; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2009
of circulation on advertising demand. Editors choose first the political position, then simultaneously cover prices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525325
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Pricing and Multi-Market Contact in the Cable TV Industry
Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2008
of multi-market contact on competition. The analysis uses a dataset of cable TV system prices to provide evidence that … also some evidence that multi-market contact with telecom overbuilders results in lower prices. However, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622743
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Bundling and Competition for Slots
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - NET Institute - 2007
We study competition among upstream firms when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products and the downstream has a limited number of slots (or shelf space). In this situation, we study how bundling affects competition for slots. When the downstream has k number of slots, social...
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The Effects of International Simple Resale on Prices in International Telecommunications Markets
Pearcy, Jason; Savage, Scott J. - NET Institute - 2009
This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simple resale (ISR) authorization on the prices for … bilateral markets from 1995 to 2004. These data provide detailed information on prices, variable costs, fixed costs and market … associated lowering of barriers to entry, almost always results in lower prices for all markets. Additionally, we find evidence …
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