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This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...
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welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September …
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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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oligopoly without the unrealistic restrictions typically imposed for tractability and to demonstrate that the fundamental …
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of circulation on advertising demand. Editors choose first the political position, then simultaneously cover prices and … advertising tariffs. We contribute to the literature on two-sided markets by endogenizing the political differentiation of …
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newspapers, quality can increase or decrease depending on the sensitivity of advertising revenue to quality. …
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In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where … oligopoly models of price competition, greatly simplifying the analysis of this otherwise complex competitive scenario. Notably …
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There are examples of entry in two-sided markets, where first entrants occupy a `central location' and serve agents …
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This paper deals with competition in communications markets between an incumbent and an entrant. We analyze the effect of bundling strategy by a firm who enters an incumbent market. This market dimension has profound implications on the sustainability of collusion in an infinitely repeated game...
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Under the rules of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, incumbent local exchange carriers, including Verizon, were obligated to lease parts of their local telecommunications network to any firm at “cost plus a reasonable profit” prices which could combine them at will, add retailing services...
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