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the platform but at the same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the … consumers but weakens competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms. …
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This discussion paper led to an article in <I>Games and Economic Behavior</I> (2012), pp. 120-138.<P> We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered,...</p></i>
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This paper sheds light on a recent empirical controversy about the effect of competition on price discrimination in … sales that is more skewed towards low prices. We show that whether competition has a positive or a negative effect on the …
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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>European Economic Review</I> (2014), 164-180.<P> We analyze the impact of product bundling in experimental markets. One firm has monopoly power in a first market but competes with another firm in a second market. We compare treatments where the...</p></i>
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always wins, eliminating competition for the field. …
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between the old andthe new technology and on whether firms compete in prices. Without price competition, a partiallock …-in occurs if (and only if) the quality difference is small. In the presence of price competition,lock-in in the traditional …
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Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition …
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We study a consumer non-sequential search oligopoly model with search cost heterogeneity. We first prove that an equilibrium in mixed strategies always exists. We then examine the nonparametric identification and estimation of the costs of search. We find that the sequence of points on the...
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We study a stochastic dynamic game of process innovation in which firms can initiate and terminate R&D efforts and production at different times. We discern the impact of knowledge spillovers on the investments in existing markets, as well as on the likely structure of newly forming markets, for...
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This discussion paper led to a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167718710000913">'International Journal of Industrial Organization'</A>, 29(2), 232-41.<P>Taking technological differences between firms as given, we show that the technologically advanced firm has a stronger incentive for technology licensing under a decentralized...</p></a>
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