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Collusion and the political differentiation of newspapers

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

We analyse a newspaper market where two editors first choose the political position of their newspaper, then set cover prices and advertising tariffs. We build on the work of Gabszewicz, Laussel and Sonnac (2001, 2002), whose model we take as the stage game of an infinitely repeated game, and...

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Bundling Incentives in Markets with Product Complementarities: The Case of Triple-Play

Macieira, Joao; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, Joao - NET Institute - 2013

We analyze firms' incentives to bundle and tie in the telecommunications industry. As a first step, we develop a discrete-choice demand model where firms sell products that may combine several services in bundles, and consumers choose assortments of different types of products available from...

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Merger control on two-sided markets: is there need for an efficinecy defense?

Baranes, Edmond; Cortade, Thomas; Cosnita-Langlais, Andreea - NET Institute - 2014

We study horizontal mergers on two-sided markets between horizontally differentiated platforms. We provide a theoretical analysis of the merger's price effect based on the amount of cost savings it generates, the behavior of outsider platforms, and the size of cross-group network effects. We...

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Bundling and Tying

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2014

may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …

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The Quest for Appropriate Remedies in the Microsoft Antitrust EU Cases: A Comparative Appraisal

Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009

substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies … roots of the competition law violation identified in the liability decision and others who advance the view that the … developing such a remedy in the future are briefly discussed before more emphasis is put on alternative remedies (competition and …

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Moderated Online Communities and User-Generated Content

Chen, Jianqing; Xu, Hong; Whinston, Andrew B. - NET Institute - 2009

Online communities provide a social sphere for people to share information and knowledge. While information sharing is becoming a ubiquitous online phenomenon, how to ensure information quality or induce quality content, however, remains a challenge due to the anonymity of commentators. This...

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Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers

Behringer, Stefan; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2009

This paper investigates the price war in the UK quality newspaper industry in the 1990s. We build a model of the newspaper market which encompasses demand for differentiated products on both, the readers and advertisers side of the market, and profit maximization by four competing oligopolistic...

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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products

Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - NET Institute - 2004

Digital products such as movies, music and computer software are protected both by self-help measures such as encryption and copy controls, and by the legal right to prevent copying. We explore how digital rights management and other technical protections a®ect the pricing of content, and...

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - NET Institute - 2007

of competition in two-part tariffs, we consider a class of access pricing rules, similar to the optimal one under … competition in linear prices, derived by Jeon (2005), but based on average retail prices. We show that firms choose the variable …

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A Critical Appraisal of Remedies in the EU Microsoft Cases

Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - NET Institute - 2009

We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The first EU case alleged (i) that Microsoft illegally bundled the Windows Media Player (WMP) with Windows; and (ii) that Microsoft did not provide adequate documentation that would...

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