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Refueling a quiet fire : old truthers and new discontent in the wake of Covid-19

Beccari, Gabriele; Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2023

This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across Italian municipalities. We demonstrate that socio-demographic factors are likely to mitigate the emergence of skepticism, while populist political leanings were more likely to...

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Taxation in two-sided markets

Kind, Hans Jarle (contributor); … - 2006

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How effective are advertising bans? : on the demand for quality in two-sided media markets

Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - 2011

We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...

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Optimal environmental policy with network effects : will Pigovian taxation lead to excess inertia?

Greaker, Mads; Midttømme, Kristoffer - 2014

We study a dynamic model with two competing durable goods; one dirty, the other clean. Due to network effects a consumer who adopts the dirty good today will increase the incentive future consumers have to adopt the dirty good. Thus, a consumer who chooses the dirty good, in a sense causes more...

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Tax incidence on competing two-sided platforms : lucky break or double jeopardy

Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 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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Prediction and identification in two-sided markets

Boik, Andre - 2018

answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …

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Germany's economic unification : an assessment after ten years

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000

west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …

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