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Should the FTC have allowed Zillow to acquire its foremost rival, Trulia? It is increasingly well-accepted that digital platforms tend toward dominance in their immediately adjacent relevant-product markets. Google, for example, has long held a majority share of the markets for general-search...
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Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible, locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from changing suppliers in response to (predictable or unpredictable) changes in efficiency, and gives vendors lucrative ex...
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benefits from a favorable coordination bias in the market, in that for this platform it is less costly than for the other … platform to convince customers that the two sides will coordinate on joining it. We find that the degree of the coordination … access fees and the size of the platform. A slight increase in the coordination bias may induce the advantaged platform to …
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If a monopolist (any manufacturer with downward-sloping demand) cannot commit to a wholesale price in advance, even competitive retailers will be reluctant to enter the market, knowing that once they have entered, the monopolist has incentive to choose a higher price and reduce their...
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There is a general presumption that competition is a good thing. In this paper we show that competition in the insurance markets can be bad and that adverse selection is in general worse under competition than under monopoly. The reason is that monopoly can exploit its market power to relax...
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This paper considers the generation and provision of data products in the markets for information. Buyers face a … decision problem with uncertainty of two states. They can purchase experiments to augment their private information. A buyer …'s willingness to pay for an experiment depends on his private information. To generate these experiments, sellers have to make an …
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in incumbent firm, an informed investor trades on her private information. With an initial stake, if product demand is …
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We address the issue of risk aversion in a competitive equilibrium when some buyers engage in learning and information … risk aversion on the equilibrium outcomes of the model, including the amount of information released by the market. We show … that risk aversion has an effect on the market outcomes but not on the flow of information. In particular, an increase in …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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