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Motivated by the unprecedented availability of consumer information on the Internet, we characterize the winners and losers from potential privacy regulation in the context of four commonly-used oligopoly models: a linear city model, a circular city model, a vertical differentiation model, and a...
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competition problem between online stores and offline stores, by allowing consumers' preferences to be more favorable towards …. By revisiting the competition between "Bricks" and "Clicks", we contribute to the literature with new insights on both … consequences of market competition under different structures …
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the rival, making them unable to distinguish between competition and independence. We characterize the equilibrium pricing … strategies when neither seller has information (competition between third-party sellers), and when only one firm has information …
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We compare the private and social incentives for privacy when sellers can commit to transparent privacy policies that are understood by consumers. The purpose is to establish a baseline for how well markets perform when firms' privacy policies are common knowledge. In this setting, if the market...
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Live selling in the e-market has been dominating e-commerce consumer behavior, raising competition among brands. Given … that online purchasing and live selling rose significantly in the Philippines, this study aimed to assess the actual … purchase of Filipinos from online live sellers. Specifically, an extended and modified theory of planned behavior was utilized …
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We analyze the incentives for incumbent bricks-and-mortar firms and newentrants to start an online retail channel in a differentiated goods market. Tothis end we set up a two-stage model where firms first decide whether or notto build the infrastructure necessary to start an online retail...
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-targeted consumers, which passive consumers cannot. When all consumers are passive, personalized pricing leads to intense competition and … raise the firm's cost of serving non-targeted consumers, which softens competition. When firms have sufficiently large and …
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themes that connect diverse insights from the literature. First, characterizing a single unifying economic theory of privacy …
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