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Network Data
Graham, Bryan S. - 2019
Many economic activities are embedded in networks: sets of agents and the (often) rivalrous relationships connecting them to one another. Input sourcing by firms, interbank lending, scientific research, and job search are four examples, among many, of networked economic activities. Motivated by...
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Input Diffusion and the Evolution of Production Networks
Carvalho, Vasco M. - 2014
The adoption and diffusion of inputs in the production network is at the heart of technological progress. What determines which inputs are initially considered and eventually adopted by innovators? We examine the evolution of input linkages from a network perspective, starting from a stylized...
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Kill Zone
Kamepalli, Sai Krishna; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2022
We study why acquisitions of entrant firms by an incumbent can deter innovation and entry in the digital platform …
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Understanding Media Markets in the Digital Age : Economics and Methodology
Danaher, Brett - 2013
Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies …-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many new opportunities to empirically analyze these questions by leveraging …" questions related to digitization and the copyright industries, and discuss methodological approaches to leverage the new data …
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Heterogeneity and the Dynamics of Technology Adoption
Ryan, Stephen P - 2014
We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - 2021
As it becomes cheaper to copy and share digital content, vendors are turning to technical protections such as encryption. We argue that if protection is nevertheless imperfect, this transition will generally lower the prices of content relative to perfect legal enforcement. However, the effect...
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The Antitrust Analysis of Multi-Sided Platform Businesses
Evans, David S. - 2013
This Chapter provides a survey of the economics literature on multi-sided platforms with particular focus on competition policy issues, including market definition, mergers, monopolization, and coordinated behavior. It provides a survey of the general industrial organization theory of...
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Network Stability, Network Externalities and Technology Adoption
Tucker, Catherine E. - 2014
This paper investigates how the destabilizing of a social network may increase the scope of network externalities, using data on sales of a video-calling system made to an investment bank's employees and subsequent usage by these customers. The terrorist attacks of 2001 led potential customers...
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Balance-Sheet Diversification in General Equilibrium : Identification and Network Effects
Heipertz, Jonas - 2017
The paper uses disaggregated data on asset holdings and liabilities to estimate a general equilibrium model where each institution determines the diversification and size of the asset and liability sides of its balance-sheet. The model endogenously generates two types of financial networks: (i)...
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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-Up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals
McCabe, Mark J. - 2019
The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...
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