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Market power on each side of a multisided platform, whether in the form of increasing prices or decreasing quality, is … business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for …
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firms competing for consumer attention and advertiser dollars. The last two decades of online platform competition … model innovations, and cross-platform rivalry. The palpable threat of displacement prevents online platforms from taking … their customers for granted. The history of online platform competition also provides empirical refutation of the …
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Digital platforms, empowered by artificial intelligence algorithms, facilitate efficient interactions between consumers and merchants that allow the collection of profiling information which drives innovation and welfare. Private incentives, however, lead to information asymmetries resulting in...
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This paper shows that two related aspects of attention platforms are important for the sound economic analysis of public policy including antitrust: First, attention platforms generate valuable content. Even though people often don't pay for content, we know from revealed preference that content...
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failures both on-platform, among merchants, and off-platform, among competing platforms. This paper develops two product … introduces a new data right for platform users, the in-situ data right, which is associated with positive welfare gains. By …
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new data right for platform users, the in-situ data right, which is associated with positive welfare gains. By …
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Tech Reg refers to the regulation of internet-connected digital businesses and the discipline that studies the when, and how, to do that. It covers areas as diverse as big tech, crypto, fintech, gig, misinformation, privacy, and telemedicine. It will expand over the coming decades as the digital...
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Two-sided platform businesses serve distinct groups of customers and need each other in some way. They provide these …
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to enhance public regulation of the perpetrators and better align the platform’s private incentives to engage in …
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