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Beef Up Your Competitor : A Model of Advertising Cooperation Between Internet Search Engines

Sapi, Geza; Suleymanova, Irina - 2009

We propose a duopoly model of competition between internet search engines endowed with different technologies and study … superior firm enters the agreement only if it results in a large enough increase in demand for advertising space at the … share the agreement is beneficial for the inferior firm as the later firm's additional revenues from a higher advertising …

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Estimating Demand with Multi-Homing in Two-Sided Markets

Affeldt, Pauline Luise; Argentesi, Elena; Filistrucchi, Lapo - 2021

, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers …

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Upfront Payments and Listing Decisions

Baake, Pio; Schlippenbach, Vanessa von - 2008

We analyze the listing decisions of a retailer who may ask her suppliers to make upfront payments in order to be listed. We consider a sequential game with upfront payments being negotiated before short-term delivery contracts. We show that the retailer is more likely to use upfront payments the...

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A Market Screening Model for Price Inconstancies : Empirical Evidence from German Electricity Markets

von Blanckenburg, Korbinian - 2013

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...

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Price Guarantees, Consumer Search, and Hassle Costs

Baake, Pio - 2013

The paper deals with the competitive effects of price guarantees in a spatial duopoly where consumers can search for lower prices but have to incur hassle costs if they want to claim a price guarantee. It is shown that symmetric equilibria with and without price guarantees exist but price...

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Learning from Unrealized Versus Realized Prices

Ngangoue, Kathleen - 2015

that is roughly consistent with the benchmark theory …

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Partitioned Pricing and Consumer Welfare

Tran, Kevin Ducbao - 2020

In online commerce, obfuscation strategies by sellers are hypothesized to mislead consumers to their detriment and to the profit of sellers. One such obfuscation strategy is partitioned pricing in which the price is split into a base price and add-on fees. While empirical evidence suggests that...

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Quality Distortions in Vertical Relations

Baake, Pio - 2010

This paper examines how delivery tariffs and private quality standards are determined in vertical relations that are subject to asymmetric information. We consider an infinitely repeated game where an upstream firm sells a product to a downstream firm. In each period, the firms negotiate a...

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Endogenous Shifts in OPEC Market Power : A Stackelberg Oligopoly with Fringe

Huppmann, Daniel - 2013

This article proposes a two-stage oligopoly model for the crude oil market. In a game of several Stackelberg leaders, market power increases endogenously as the spare capacity of the competitive fringe goes down. This effect is due to the specific cost function characteristics of extractive...

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Modeling Coordination between Renewables and Grid : Policies to Mitigate Distribution Grid Constraints Using Residential PV-Battery Systems

Neetzow, Paul; Mendelevitch, Roman; Siddiqui, Sauleh - 2018

Distributed photo-voltaic (PV) generation is one of the pillars of energy transitions around the world, but its deployment in the distribution grid requires costly reinforcements and expansions. Prosumage - consisting of a household-level PV unit coupled with a battery storage system - has been...

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