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The limits of marketplace fee discrimination
Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021
Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...
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Dynamic entry in vertically differentiated markets
Auer, Raphael A.; Sauré, Philip - 2016
We develop a model of vertical innovation in which firms incur a market entry cost and choose a unique level of quality. Once established, firms compete for market shares, selling to consumers with heterogeneous tastes for quality. The equilibrium of the pricing game exists and is unique within...
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Double marginalization and vertical integration
Choné, Philippe; Linnemer, Laurent; Vergé, Thibaud - 2021
Asymmetric information in procurement entails double marginalization. The phenomenon is most severe when the buyer has all the bargaining power at the production stage, while it vanishes when the buyer and suppliers' weights are balanced. Vertical integration eliminates double marginalization...
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Net neutrality and investment incentives
Choi, Jay Pil (contributor); Kim, Byung-Cheol (contributor) - 2008
possibility of the opposite. -- Net neutrality ; investment (innovation) incentives ; queuing theory ; hold-up problem ; two …This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP’s investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …
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Hospital competition and quality with regulated prices
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2009
of (i) introducing competition (monopoly versus competition) and (ii) increasing competition through lower transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850156
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Beyond the dogma of the fixed book price agreement
Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003
After describing the essential features of the book market, a welfare analysis of the fixed book price agreement is given. Allowance is made for the opportunity cost of reading. Theoretically, the agreement pushes up book prices and depresses book sales. However, more titles will be published,...
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Vertical integration and downstream collusion
Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David - 2016
We investigate the effect of a vertical merger on downstream firms' ability to collude in a repeated game framework. We show that a vertical merger has two main effects. On the one hand, it increases the total collusive profits, increasing the stakes of collusion. On the other hand, it creates...
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Taxation, industry integration and production efficiency
Moriconi, Simone - 2016
Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...
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The organization of international trade
Boddin, Dominik; Stähler, Frank - 2018 - Version of November 19, 2018
This paper discusses how international trade is organized from export to trans-boundary transport to import. All evidence suggests that the transport sector is independent, may exercise market power and features strong economies of scale. We develop a model of a transport industry that operates...
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Vertical control change and platform organization under network externalities
Padilla, Atilano Jorge; Piccolo, Salvatore; Shekhar, Shiva - 2022
the incentives of a platform to open up its ecosystem to third-party sellers, as well as for the regulation of vertical …
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