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Switching Costs in Two-sided Markets

Lam, Wing Man Wynne - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

This paper studies a dynamic two-sided market in which consumers face switching costs between competing products. I …

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Competition in the Market for Flexible Resources: an application to cloud computing

Lam, Wing Man Wynne - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

capacity. I find that market power of the monopolist providing exible resources distorts investment incentives, while …

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When Is Building a Library Consortium Benecial?

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

This paper identifies strategies to build a library consortium from a long term point of view. Contrary to the conventional wisdom to build a consortium around groups of homogenous institutions (Davis, 2002), we find that libraries with similar preferences are likely to lose from building a...

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Interconnection among Academic Journal Websites: Multilateral versus Bilateral Interconnection

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

Electronic academic journal websites provide new services of text and/or data mining and linking, indispensable for efficient allocation of attention among abundant sources of scientific information. Fully realizing the benefit of these services requires interconnection among websites. Motivated...

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Bundling and Competition for Slots: On the Portfolio Effects of Bundling

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

We consider competition among sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products to a buyer having limited slots. We study how bundling affects competition for slots. Under independent pricing, equilibrium often does not exist and hence the outcome is often inefficient. When...

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Mobile Termination and Mobile Penetration

Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, we find that a reduction of the...

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Bundling and Competition for Slots: Sequential Pricing

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

In this paper we study, as in Jeon-Menicucci (2009), competition between sellers when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products to a buyer having limited slots. This paper considers sequential pricing and complements our main paper (Jeon- Menicucci, 2009) that considers simultaneous...

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"Impacts of Patent Expiry and Regulatory Policies on Daily Cost of Pharmaceutical Treatments: OECD Countries, 2004-2010"

Berndt, Ernst; Dubois, Pierre - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012

Cross-country variability in regulatory frameworks, industrial policy, physician/pharmacy autonomy, brand/generic distinctions, and in the practice of medicine contributes to ambiguous interpretations of pharmaceutical cost comparisons. Here we report cross-country comparisons that: (i) focus on...

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A Theory of Buyer Fragmentation: Divide-and-Conquer Intensifies Competition

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Menicucci, Domenico - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

It is well-known from Innes and Sexton (1993, 1994) that divide-and-conquer contracts allow an incumbent facing a potential entrant to extract more surplus from buyers and hence buyers suffer from the strategy. In this paper, we show that when sellers compete by offering personalized non-linear...

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Equilibrium Fast Trading

Biais, Bruno; Foucault, Thierry; Moinas, Sophie - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

High-speed market connections improve investors' ability to search for attractive quotes in fragmented markets, raising … gains from trade. They also enable fast traders to observe market information before slow traders, generating adverse … market type on which fast and slow traders coexist and ii) Pigovian taxes on investment in the fast trading technology. …

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