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This paper investigates the strategies of a data broker in selling information to one or to two competing firms that can price-discriminate consumers. The data broker can strategically choose any segment of the consumer demand (information structure) to sell to firms that implement third-degree...
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We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and …
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We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market …, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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Many Internet markets rely on quot;feedback systemsquot;, essentially social networks of reputation, to facilitate …
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In 2018, the European Council and the UK and Spanish governments each proposed to introduce a Digital Services Tax (DST), to be levied on the revenue of large digital platform companies earned from advertising, online intermediation, and/or the transmission of data. We offer a rationalization of...
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We study competition among a score of firms participating in an online market for a commodity computer component. Firms were able to adjust prices continuously; prices determined how the firms were ranked and listed (lowest price listed first), with better ranks contributing to firms' sales....
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The agency model used by Apple and other platform providers such as Google allows upstream firms (content providers like book publishers and developers of apps) to choose the retail prices of their products (RPM) subject to a fixed revenue-sharing rule. We show that (i) this leads to higher...
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As the Internet economy has grown, so too has the need for trust. A degree of trust is a critical ingredient in … virtually all economic relationships, Internet or otherwise. Every day we choose to trust plumbers, doctors, employers … Internet traders increases contracting difficulties: You may not be able to identify your eBay seller or verify the quality of …
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Rapid growth in e-commerce has altered the ability of jurisdictions to enforce commodity taxes on a destination basis. This results in different effective tax rates depending on the way in which goods and services are purchased and the characteristics of both the products and the sellers. We...
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We consider a network that intermediates traffic between free content providers and consumers. While consumers do not know the traffic cost when deciding on consumption, a content provider knows his cost but may not control the consumption. We study how pricing consumers' and content providers'...
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