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We review the economics of superstars, originally developed for stars in traditional media, and discuss whether they are applicable for the (allegedly) novel phenomenon of stars in social media (influencer, micro-celebrities). Moreover, we analyse potentially new factors for creating social...
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The related phenomena of learning curve and network effects are quite common in oligopolistic markets. In this context the present paper discusses the incentives of a technological leader to share its exclusive technology with potential competitors. An alliance may be preferable because partner...
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We review the economics of superstars, originally developed for stars in traditional media, and discuss whether they are applicable for the (allegedly) novel phenomenon of stars in social media (influencer, micro-celebrities). Moreover, we analyse potentially new factors for creating social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888755
This paper investigates the competition between vertically differentiated platforms in two-sided markets. We assume the presence of two competing platforms producing either higher- or lower-quality devices for consumers. Each platform decides the price of its hardware device for consumers and...
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The presence of multiple sellers in the provision of (non-substitutable) complementary goods leads to outcomes that are worse than those generated by an integrated monopoly, a problem also known as "tragedy of the anticommons". In this paper we identify some conditions under which the tragedy is...
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Market mechanism may or may not throw up compatibility in markets for systems where network effect arises due to complementarity of component parts of a system. We consider a game, where, in stage 1, the firms decide whether to standardise on a single technological platform or not and at the...
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, it later “tips” to monopoly, after which entry is hard, often even too hard given incompatibility. And while switching … costs can encourage small-scale entry, they discourage sellers from raiding one another's existing customers, and so also … discourage more aggressive entry. Because of these competitive effects, even inefficient incompatible competition is often more …
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which entry is hard, often even too hard given incompatibility. And while switching costs can encourage small-scale entry …, they discourage sellers from raiding one another's existing customers, and so also discourage more aggressive entry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014026899
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The existing literature suggests that an incumbent monopolist supplier of a network good can successfully deter entry … to play its preemptive role to deter entry, the monopolist can deter entry, strategically by revealing its R … entry deterrence is welfare reducing …
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