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Should Utility-Reducing Media Advertising Be Taxed?
Kind, Hans Jarle - 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 …
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Tax Evasion in a Cournot Oligopoly with Endogenous Entry
Goerke, Laszlo - 2017
If an additional competitor reduces output per firm in a homogenous Cournot-oligopoly, market entry will be excessive … the excessive entry prediction. Tax evasion raises the number of firms in market equilibrium and can alter their welfare …-maximizing number. In consequence, evasion can aggravate or mitigate excessive entry. Which of these outcomes prevails is determined by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964693
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Market Segmentation in Two-Sided Markets : TV Rights for Premier League
Kind, Hans Jarle - 2013
This paper analyzes market segmentation in a two-sided market that consists of media consumers and advertisers. The analysis is motivated by a European Court of Justice Decision in October 2011, which allowed viewers to take advantage of international price differences and buy access to Premier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088134
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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices
Anderson, Simon P.; Foros, Oystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; … - CESifo - 2011
Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce … assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and that viewers single-home. Allowing for crowding in viewer attention spans …
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Merger Without Cost Advantages
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A.; Müller, Wieland - 2021
The seminal paper by Salant, Switzer and Reynolds (1983) showed that merger in a standard Cournot framework with linear demand and linear costs is not profitable unless a large majority of the firms are involved in the merger. However, many strategic aspects matter for firm competition such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318548
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Dynamic Entry in Vertically Differentiated Markets
Auer, Raphael A.; Sauré, Philip U. - 2021
We develop a model of vertical innovation in which firms incur a market entry cost and choose a unique level of quality … spectrum has top and a bottom, is thus overcome by sequential entry. Our main contribution lies in handling these asymmetries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315485
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Media Market Concentration, Advertising Levels, and Ad Prices
Anderson, Simon P. - 2011
Standard media economics models imply that increased platform competition decreases ad levels and that mergers reduce … assumptions that there is no advertising congestion and that viewers single-home. Allowing for crowding in viewer attention spans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117358
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Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms : Lucky Break or Double Jeopardy
Belleflamme, Paul - 2016
We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989632
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Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms : Lucky Break or Double Jeopardy
Belleflamme, Paul - 2016
We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992633
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Optimal Compatibility in Systems Markets
Kim, Sang-Hyun; Choi, Jay Pil - 2021
We investigate private and social incentives for standardization to ensure market-wide system compatibility in a two-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental conflict of interest between consumers...
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