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Online versus in-person services : effects on patients and providers

Dahlstrand, Amanda; Le Nestour, Nestor; Michaels, Guy - 2024

Online delivery of one-to-one services offers potential cost savings and increased convenience, yet relatively little is known about its impacts on providers and consumers. This paper studies the online delivery of healthcare, focusing on primary care doctor consultations. We use novel data from...

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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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"Sherlocking" and platform information policy

Choi, Jay Pil; Kim, Kyungmin; Mukherjee, Arijit - 2023

Platform-run marketplaces may exploit third-party sellers' data to develop competing products, but potential for future competition can deter sellers' entry. We explore how this trade-off affects the platform's referral fee and its own entry decision. We first characterize the platform's optimal...

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The optimal defense of network connectivity

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2015

Maintaining the security of critical infrastructure networks is vital for a modern economy. This paper examines a game-theoretic model of attack and defense of a network in which the defender's objective is to maintain network connectivity and the attacker's objective is to destroy a set of...

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Network externalities, dominant value margins, and equilibrium uniqueness

Choi, Jay Pil; Stefanadis, Christodoulos - 2022

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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Strategic complementarities in a model of commercial media bias

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2023

Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show that in a standard model of commercial media bias,...

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Net neutrality and internet fragmentation : the role of online advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2015 - This version: July 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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Incentives and anonymity principle : crowding out toward users

Crifo, Patricia (contributor); … - 2004

In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...

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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand

Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2010

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public utilities), using a Hotelling framework, in the presence of sluggish demand. We take a differential-game approach, and derive the open-loop solution (providers choose the optimal...

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Using fees to reduce bed-blocking : a game between hospitals and care providers

Kverndokk, Snorre; Melberg, Hans Olav - 2016

The Coordination Reform was introduced in Norway in 2012 including a fee for bed-blocking in hospitals. To study this, we introduce a Stackelberg game where the hospital is the leader and the care institution is the follower. The reform does not necessarily lead to less bed-blocking as this...

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