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This article is adapted for the Journal of Internet Law from a more in-depth article that the author has published …: Resale Price Maintenance: The Internet Phenomenon and Free Rider Issues, 55 Antitrust Bulletin 473 (2010). It examines the … characteristics of the Internet, online retailing, and the issues they raise pertaining to the free rider justification. It argues …
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Antitrust issues in the digital economy, especially those concerning big data and algorithms, have attracted the attention of both scholars and practitioners all around the world. Against the backdrop of rapid development of China's digital economy, many online platforms now have a largely data-...
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Competition policy debates on digital platform markets are often premised on the idea that market fragmentation and the standard forces of competition and entry may provide a potential solution to excessive concentration and market power. In this work, Francesco Ducci provides readers with a...
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"Multi-sided platform markets characterized by network externalities have always existed as an economic paradigm, but in different technological forms.1 The old village market place, physical shopping malls, or any traditional fair can be seen as multi-sided platform markets connecting buyers...
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The swift growth of E-commerce has benefited consumers by opening doors to the single global market, accessible on finger tips. It has secured greater access to a wide range of goods and services, increased price transparency, reduced search and switching costs, among other things. The firms...
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We provide a novel intuition for why manufacturers restrict their retailers' ability to resell brandproducts online. Our approach builds on models of limited attention according to which pricedisparities across distribution channels guide a consumer's attention toward prices and lower...
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The current paper aims to investigate the relation between competit ion and online purchasing decision-making, integrating consumer protection awareness and the corresponding consumer behavior as mediators. The focus is on both subjective and objective measures related to the level of consumer...
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Loza examines some 180 Internet fraud cases prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission and the FTC's extensive range of … Internet-related services; international telephone services; securities trading services and other investment-related fraud …
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