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Competition among multi-store chains is common in retail industries. This paper proposes a method for estimating a model of strategic store-network choices by two chains. In contrast to previous studies, I allow chains to not only choose which markets to enter but also how many stores to open in...
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We develop a structural econometric framework that allows us to simulate the effects of mergers among two-sided platforms selling differentiated products. We apply the proposed methodology to the Dutch newspaper industry. Our structural model encompasses demands for differentiated products on...
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We model a two-sided market with heterogeneous customers and two heterogeneous network effects. In our model, customers on each market side care differently about both the number and the type of customers on the other side. Examples of two-sided markets are online platforms or daily newspapers....
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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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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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We consider some two dynamic models of entry in mobile telephony, with and without strategic pricing, and taking into … account market penetration at entry, locked-in consumers and tariff-mediated network externalities. We show that on …/off-net differentials may reduce the possibility of entry if incumbents are large, while they have no long-run effects if there are no …
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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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, rarely have economists been able to examine how competition changes with the threat of entry. This paper uses the evolution … firm adjusts its entry strategy when facing the threat of additional entrants. We identify the potential entrant into a … that such a market is more likely to accommodate more than firms in the long run. Taking account of endogeneity of entry …
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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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