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Various forms of social learning and network effects are at work on crowdfunding platforms, giving rise to informational and payoff externalities. We use novel entrepreneur-backer data to study how these externalities shape funding dynamics, within and across projects. We find that backers...
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In a recent paper, Alipranti et al. (2014, Price vs. quantity competition in a vertically related market, Economics Letters, 124: 122-126) show that in a vertically related market Cournot competition yields higher social welfare compared to Bertrand competition if the upstream firm subsidises...
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Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...
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strategically set termination fees to induce fragmentation. This takes place when advertising revenues are potentially large but … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the … model to account for multi-homing consumers, vertically integrated ISPs, third-party advertising platforms and heterogeneous …
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We study a two-sided market where a platform attracts firms selling differentiated products and buyers interested in those products. In the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the game, the platform fully internalizes the network externalities present in the market and firms and consumers all...
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assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and that viewers single-home. Allowing for crowding in viewer attention spans …
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This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …
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if advertising markets are sufficiently thick. In turn, we study how disclosure affects the incentives of publishers to … competitiveness of advertising markets and the ability of platforms to profile consumers. We show that, even when most consumers multi …-home, the publishers may be worse off by outsourcing to the intermediary, in particular if they operate in thin advertising …
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advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …
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We model non-binding retail-price recommendations (RPRs) as a communication device facilitating coordination in vertical supply relations. Assuming both repeated vertical trade and asymmetric information about production costs, we show that RPRs may be part of a relational contract,...
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