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YouTube Decade: Cultural Convergence in Recorded Music

George, Lisa M.; Peukert, Christian - NET Institute - 2014

superstars. The net effect is an empirical question. We study the effect of YouTube on the market for music, focusing on … development but differ in access to music videos on YouTube. Exploiting a contract dispute that has blocked official music videos … dominates, the magnitude of estimated effects are modest, suggesting that YouTube will not drive out the market for local music …

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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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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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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...

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Does Regulation Drive Competition? Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry

Gil, Ricard; Nishida, Mitsukuni - NET Institute - 2012

Although we have many tools to understand the effect of regulation on competition, we know little about the importance of enforcement in explaining the impact of regulation. For this purpose, this paper uses data from Spanish local television industry in Spain from 1995 through 2001, which...

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Optimal Cartel Prices in Two-Sided Markets Access

Boffa, Federico; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2014

We study optimal cartel prices in a two-sided market. We present a simple model showing that prices above the two-sided monopoly price may prevail on one side of a two-sided market as a means to enhance the sustainability of the cartel. We prove that in such a case a higher benefit from the...

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Banning Ads from Prime-Time State TV: Lessons from France

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Mangani, Andrea; Luini, Luigi - NET Institute - 2012

We analyse the effects of the advertising ban on French public television, which came into effect on the 5th of January 2009. The ban forbids commercial advertising on public TV in the time slot 20.00-6.00. By using a difference-in-difference approach we show that advertising which was...

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Net Neutrality, Foreclosure and the Fast Lane: An empirical study of the UK

Nurski, Laura - NET Institute - 2012

Consumers buy internet access from Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to reach online content providers. Under net neutrality, an ISP is not allowed to discriminate between content providers, even though it might have an incentive to do so. An ISP might want to sell a “fast lane” to content...

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The Economics of Open-Access Journals

McCabe, Mark; Snyder, Christopher - NET Institute - 2004

Previous research modeled academic journals as platforms connecting authors with readers in a two-sided market. This research used the same basic framework also used to study telephony, credit cards, video game consoles, etc. In this paper, we focus on a key difference between the market for...

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Are Ratings Informative Signals? The Analysis of The Netflix Data.

Maryanchyk, Ivan - NET Institute - 2008

The aim of this research is to analyze whether and when ratings are informative signals about the quality of movies. The ratings data of Netflix is used to fit a structural Bayesian learning model. This model links revealed experience utilities of raters, previous consumers, to the product...

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