Platform interoperability is considered a powerful tool to promote competition in digital markets when network effects … are at play. We study the effect of interoperability on competition between two ad-financed platforms, allowing for …

lists of consumers, exclusive data availability intensifies market competition. …

demand. The merging firms will increase (reduce) both quality and price if the degree of competition is sufficiently stronger …

competition by a competitive fringe that produces low quality. We show that the brand manufacturer optimally provides a decoy good …

Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation … interesting market to examine the link between competition and innovation. We use firm-level time-series data over a long horizon … relationship is reasonably non-linear; (2) higher market-wide competition results in an increase in patenting, and the relationship …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

Partly motivated by the recent antitrust investigations concerning Google, we develop a leverage theory of tying in two …