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E-book Pricing and Vertical Restraints
Santos, Babur De los; Wildenbeest, Matthijs - NET Institute - 2014
This paper empirically analyzes how the use of vertical price restraints has impacted retail prices in the market for e-books. In 2010 five of the six largest publishers simultaneously adopted the agency model of book sales, allowing them to directly set retail prices. This led the Department of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934840
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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007
welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622691
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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007
In this paper, we evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local phone service in New York State … first quarter of 2003. Our results indicate that as a result of entry households that subscribe to one of the entrants … nature of the data, we decompose the households' overall gains from entry and find that benefits due to firm differentiation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622703
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Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework
White, Alexander; Weyl, E. Glen - NET Institute - 2010
oligopoly without the unrealistic restrictions typically imposed for tractability and to demonstrate that the fundamental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684462
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News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Esfahani, Nikrooz Nasr - NET Institute - 2012
newspapers, quality can increase or decrease depending on the sensitivity of advertising revenue to quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905459
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Price Wars in Two-Sided Markets: The case of the UK Quality Newspapers
Behringer, Stefan; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2009
of circulation on advertising demand. Editors choose first the political position, then simultaneously cover prices and … advertising tariffs. We contribute to the literature on two-sided markets by endogenizing the political differentiation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008525325
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Competition in Prices and Service Level Guarantees
Johari, Ramesh; Weintraub, Gabriel - NET Institute - 2007
In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where … oligopoly models of price competition, greatly simplifying the analysis of this otherwise complex competitive scenario. Notably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184809
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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities
Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012
The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905457
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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform
Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013
We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers’ products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905461
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A Model of Product Design and Information Disclosure Investments
Markopoulos, Panos; Hosanagar, Kartik - NET Institute - 2013
As online information availability for products and services is increasing and as buyers engage in more online search prior to purchase decisions, it is becoming more important for firms to know when to invest to reduce buyer uncertainty. This article argues that today's firms should view...
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