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Multisided Platforms, Dynamic Competition, and the Assessment of Market Power for Internet-Based Firms

Evans, David S. - 2016

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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Why the Dynamics of Competition for Online Platforms Leads to Sleepless Nights But Not Sleepy Monopolies

Evans, David S. - 2017

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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Privacy and Antitrust in Digital Platforms

Economides, Nicholas; Lianos, Ioannis - 2021

Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users by default precipitating a market failure in the market for personal information. We establish the economic harms from the market failure. We discuss conditions for eliminating the market failure and...

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Attention Platforms, the Value of Content, and Public Policy

Evans, David S. - 2019

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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The Relation between Industry and Services in Terms of Productivity and Value Creation

Baker, Paul; Foster-McGregor, Neil; Johannes, Koenen; … - 2015

The share of manufacturing in GDP is declining, whereas the share of services – and business-related services in particular – is rising in almost all advanced economies. However, as these industries are mutually dependent in various ways this study focuses on the manufacturing sector as a...

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Tech Reg : Rules for the Digital Economy

Evans, David S. - 2021

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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