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Complex Antitrust Harm in Platform Markets
Newman, John M. - 2017
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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Matching Platforms
Aoyagi, Masaki - 2020
A platform matches agents from two sides of a market to create a trading opportunity between them. The agents subscribe to the platform by paying subscription fees which are contingent on their reported private types, and then engage in strategic interactions with their matched partner(s). A...
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The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition
Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - 2019
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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DIGITAL PLATFORM : A NEW ECONOMIC INSTITUTION
Geliskhanov, Islam - 2021
"information-digital capital" (IDC) and "information-digital rent" (IDR). © 2018, SRAC - Romanian Society for Quality. All rights …
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Online Shopping and Platform Design with Ex Ante Registration Requirements
Morath, Florian - 2015
and all relevant product information. We show that a monopoly seller requires ex ante registration in equilibrium if and …
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Digital Hermits
Miklós-Thal, Jeanine; Goldfarb, Avi; Haviv, Avery; … - 2023
When a user shares multi-dimensional data about themselves with a firm, the firm learns about the correlations of different dimensions of user data. We incorporate this type of learning into a model of a data market in which a firm acquires data from users with privacy concerns. User data is...
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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform
Economides, Nicholas - 2014
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 competition...
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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform
Economides, Nicholas - 2015
We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile-phone networks, offer plans with download limits: through one of two mechanisms, doing so causes the providers of the content consumer purchase to either reduce their prices or...
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
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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Two-sided platforms : dynamic pricing and multiple equilibria
Rys, Przemyslaw; Sobolewski, Maciej - 2020
The static model of two sided markets proposed by Rochet and Tirole analyses optimal pricing of a monopolistic platform at the equilibrium point. Their framework implicitly assumes that for each prices set by the platform, the equilibrium number of users on each side will be unique. However,...
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