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On the Evolution of Market Institutions : The Platform Design Paradox
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Walzl, Markus - 2021
We study competition among market designers who create new trading platforms, when boundedly rational traders learn to … market designer. This in turn leads market designers to introduce non-market clearing platforms. Hence platform competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317023
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Newspapers and advertising: the effects of ad-valorem taxation under duopoly
Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank - 2007
Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language in most countries. Newspapers are therefore given preferential tax treatment....
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Efficiency enhancing taxation in two-sided markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2008
This paper examines the efficient provision of goods in two-sided markets and characterizes optimal specific and ad-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264333
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Should utility-reducing media advertising be taxed?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2009
economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … recent advances in the theory of Industrial Organization and two-sided markets we show that taxing ads may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264591
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Selling Cross-Border in Online Markets : The Impact of the Ban on Geoblocking Strategies
Bourreau, Marc; Manenti, Fabio M. - 2021
(Fudenberg and Tirole, 1984) for firms, which allows them to soften competition, but that it comes at the cost of lower demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314958
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A simple model of health insurance competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274910
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842674
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Data Brokers Co-Opetition
Gu, Yiquan - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891572
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Taxation in two-sided markets
Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2006
Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known textbook result in one-sided markets is that a government may increase a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264036
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Do consumers buy less of a taxed good?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2005
This paper shows that consumers may buy more of a taxed good if it is sold by a two-sided platform firm. Two-sided platform industries serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry (newspapers/magazines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261397