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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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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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Spread Too Thin: Uncertainty Shocks and Diseconomies of Scope

Natividad, Gabriel; Sorenson, Olav - NET Institute - 2011

Although many streams of literature have recognized that firms with broader scope often underperform those with greater focus, relatively little research has examined the mechanisms that might account for these diseconomies of scope. One potential mechanism is that uncertainty shocks -- events...

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Ad Revenue and Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs

Sun, Monic; Zhu, Feng - NET Institute - 2011

Many scholars argue that content providers, when incentivized by ad revenue, are more likely to tailor their content to attract “eyeballs,” and as a result, popular content may be excessively supplied. We empirically test this prediction by taking advantage of the launch of an...

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Price Competition in Two-Sided Markets with Heterogeneous Consumers and Network Effects

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Klein, Tobias J. - NET Institute - 2013

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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