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Why the Dynamics of Competition for Online Platforms Leads to Sleepless Nights But Not Sleepy Monopolies
Evans, David S. - 2017
the economics, technology, and history of online competition. Online platforms face dynamic competition as a result of …: disruptive innovation that provides opportunities for entry; competition from online platforms that have secured a toehold in one … firms competing for consumer attention and advertiser dollars. The last two decades of online platform competition …
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Attention Rivalry Among Online Platforms
Evans, David S. - 2013
anticompetitive effects. Most importantly, antitrust analysis should focus on competition for seeking and providing attention rather … than the particular products and services used for securing and delivering this attention. The existence of competition …
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Analyzing Market Definition and Power in Multi-Sided Platform Markets
Noel, Michael D. - 2015
The SSNIP test and Critical Loss Analysis are widely used tools for determining market definition in merger and sometimes other antitrust matters. However, the standard techniques used to test for a relevant antitrust market are incorrect when the firms in question operate two-sided platforms....
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Multisided Platforms, Dynamic Competition, and the Assessment of Market Power for Internet-Based Firms
Evans, David S. - 2016
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 … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …
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Vertical Restraints in a Digital World
Evans, David S. - 2020
The subject of vertical restraints is well-trod territory in antitrust. Most of the cases, and economic literature, have focused, however, on the physical world of manufacturers and distributors. This paper considers what's new and different about the digital world that matters for the antitrust...
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Why the Claim that Markets with Two-Sided Platforms Become One-Sided When They Mature is Wrong
Evans, David S. - 2017
Several economists have claimed that markets in which two-sided firms compete become one-sided at maturity, when everyone has joined a platform. That is, they assert that in mature markets policymakers, such as courts in antitrust cases, can properly exclude one side from consideration, even...
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What Times-Picayune Tells Us About the Antitrust Analysis of Attention Platforms
Evans, David S. - 2019
Times-Picayune, a 1953 Supreme Court decision involving newspapers, has gained notoriety from the Court's American Express decision concerning credit-card networks. The Amex dissent argued that the Court had already decided how to apply the rule-of-reason analysis to two-sided platforms in...
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The Role of Market Definition in Assessing Anti-Competitive Harm in Ohio v. American Express
Evans, David S. - 2019
platform competition for transactions. This article also shows that criticisms of the Supreme Court decision seem to be based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868779
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Economic Findings Concerning the State of Competition for Wired Broadband Provision to U.S. Households and Edge Providers
Evans, David S. - 2017
The Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, in the course of considering mergers and acquisitions as well as other policy matters, have conducted detailed investigations of the wired broadband business, and the intertwined business of providing linear programming....
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Network Effects : March to the Evidence, Not to the Slogans
Evans, David S. - 2017
Though network effects are important for multisided platforms, the simple winner-take-all notion that they always give larger platforms an insurmountable advantage over smaller rivals has been disproven by numerous counterexamples. It is now being argued that big data is power, so that a firm...
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