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Turning the Page on Business Formats for Digital Platforms : Does Apple's Agency Model Soften Competition?

Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Shaffer, Greg Eric - 2021

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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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...

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Tax Incidence on Competing Two-Sided Platforms : Lucky Break or Double Jeopardy

Belleflamme, Paul - 2016

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Apparent Competition in Two-Sided Platforms

Guven, Gokhan - 2017

We study a platform's design of membership and transaction fees when sellers compete and buyers cannot observe the prices and features of goods without incurring search costs. The platform alleviates sellers' competition by charging them transaction fees that increase with sales revenue, and...

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How Social Reputation Networks Interact with Competition in Anonymous Online Trading : An Experimental Study

Bolton, Gary E. - 2014

Many Internet markets rely on quot;feedback systemsquot;, essentially social networks of reputation, to facilitate …

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Taxes in an E-Commerce Generation

Agrawal, David R. - 2016

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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ICT Adoption in Micro and Small Firms : Can Internet Access Improve Labor Productivity?

Viollaz, Mariana - 2018

This paper analyzes the impact of internet adoption on labor productivity in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing … firms over the period 2011-2013. Instrumental variables estimates show that internet adoption: (i) increases firms' labor …

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Net Neutrality and Internet Fragmentation : The Role of Online Advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna - 2015

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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Selling Strategic Information in Digital Competitive Markets

Bounie, David - 2018

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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Mechanisms in a Digitalized World

Demange, Gabrielle - 2018

Due to computing and communication facilities, formal procedures, often referred to as ‘algorithms', are now extensively used in public, economic and social areas. These procedures, currently at the forefront of criticisms, share some features with mechanisms as defined by economists,...

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