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Platform intermediation in a market for differentiated products
Galeotti, Andrea; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2008 - Rev.: February 2008
We study a two-sided market where a platform attracts firms selling differentiated products and buyers interested in those products. In the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the game, the platform fully internalizes the network externalities present in the market and firms and consumers all...
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Bertrand price competition in a social environment
Tieman, Alexander F.; Laan, Gerard van der; Houba, Harold - 1998
We analyze the behavior of producers who compete through price competition in a social environment from a sociological point of view. The standard model of Bertrand price competition is enriched with producers who follow a "Win Cooperate, Lose Defect" (WCLD) strategy. This strategy is a...
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Network asymmetries and access pricing in cellular telecommunications
Kocsis, Viktória - 2005
Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for...
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Auctions for private congestible infrastructures
Berg, Vincent A. C. van den - 2012
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Group formation in a public good experiment : on the dynamics of social ties structures
Sonnemans, Joep; Dijk, Frans van; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 1999
Economic behavior often takes place in groups of small numbers of peopleinteracting with each other (like work teams, neighborhoods, socialnetworks, etc.). Characteristic of such interaction is the development of(affective) interpersonal relationships, or social ties. According tosociologists,...
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Conditional cooperation and voluntary contributions to public goods
Keser, Claudia; Winden, Frans A. A. M. van - 2000
We compare a partners condition where the same small group of subjects plays arepeated public good game to astrangers condition where subjects play this game in changing group formations.Subjects in the partners conditioncontribute from the first period on significantly more to the public good...
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Control without deception
Bardsley, Nicholas - 2000
Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect ofmaking "others' behaviour" a controlled variable,but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute thepool of subjects. This paper proposes andimplements a new experimental design, the Conditional...
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The economics of altruistic punishment and the demise of cooperation
Egas, Martijn; Riedl, Arno - 2005
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that altruistic punishment is an important mechanism to maintain cooperation among humans. In this...
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Does stake size matter for cooperation and punishment?
Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Visser, Martine - 2006 - This version: 2006-11-20
The effects of stake size on cooperation and punishment are investigated using a public goods experiment. We find that an increase in stake size does neither significantly affect cooperation nor, interestingly, the level of punishment.
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Advertising and consumer search in a duopoly model
Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Non, Mariëlle C. - 2005
. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …
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