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Digital products have the property that they can be copied almost costlessly. This makes them candidates for non-commercial copying by final consumers. Because the copy of a copy typically does not deteriorate in quality, copying products can become a wide-spread phenomenon this can be...
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reduce advertising revenues for publishers of copyright infringing content. Historical data lets us follow how the third …-party advertising and tracking services associated with a large number of piracy websites and a corresponding set of legitimate "placebo … initiative and reduce their connections with piracy websites. We do not find reductions for other non-advertising services that …
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online piracy. In the past, the discussion mainly focused on the impact of piracy in content industries and the effect of … anti-piracy measures. But little is known about one crucial aspect of piracy: consumers' motivations to use illegal … to fight online piracy. In this paper, we fill this gap by focusing on two main motives for the illegal consumption of …
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give special attention to empirical evidence on online copyright enforcement, changes in the supply of works due to digital …. Copyright law, in particular, has developed constantly to keep up with emerging technologies and the interests of creators … economics of copyright in the digital age, with a particular focus on the available empirical evidence. First, we discuss the …
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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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Emerging tracking data allow precise predictions of individuals' reservation values. However, firms are reluctant to conspicuously implement personalized pricing because of concerns about consumer and regulatory reprisals. This paper proposes and applies a method which disguises personalized...
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We examine tippy network markets that accommodate price discrimination. The analysis shows that when a mild equilibrium refinement, the monotonicity criterion, is adopted, network competition may have a unique subgame-perfect equilibrium regarding the winner's identity; the prevailing brand may...
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We analyze the effects of commodity taxation in markets where suppliers implement second-degree price discrimination schemes, such as offering different package sizes and quality-differentiated versions of the same product. In these markets, suppliers distort the quantity (or quality) intended...
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The paper shows that taking inventory control out of the hands of competitive or exclusive retailers and assigning it to a manufacturer increases the value of a supply chain especially for goods whose demand is highly volatile. This is because doing so solves incentive distortions that arise...
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In this study, we investigate behavioral constraints on pricing by using a novel laboratory experiment in which actual consumption goods are traded. We test different models and provide several insights into pricing and reactions to price discrimination. First, we identify the extent to which...
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