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A methodology is proposed to estimate structural models of product line competition. This methodology enables researchers to estimate demand systems accounting for the endogeneity of the mix of products available in each market, an issue which is typically ignored in the empirical literature. In...
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Motivated by recent trends in apps and electronic media, I study the pricing decision of a durable-goods monopolist to derive conditions under which freemium pricing is optimal. Under freemium pricing, the firm charges a price of zero for the durable good but offers optional micro-transactions...
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We investigate the relation between Net Neutrality regulation and Internet fragmentation. We model a two-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and CPs sell consumers' attention to advertisers. Under Net Neutrality, a...
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I analyze the extent to which competitors adopt similar pricing strategies. Using an extensive panel data set, I find substantial heterogeneity in the price setting behavior of nearby competitors. The differences in strategy can be explained, in part, by the size of firms and relative...
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Incorporating the extension of exclusive dealing into Cournot competition, we analyze the multiproduct downstream firms' choice of organizational form between U-form and M-form. With managerial delegation in downstream firms, we find that choosing U-form for the downstream firms is a dominant...
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betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …
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This note presents an ordered search model in which consumers search both for price and product fitness. We construct … an equilibrium in which there is price dispersion and prices rise in the order of search. The top firms in consumer … search process, though charge lower prices, earn higher profits due to their larger market shares. …
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betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …
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lowest total price, and few consumers invest in drip-price search. A comparison with Bertrand competition reveals significant …
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We study how consumer search affects pricing in markets with incumbents and entrants using panel data on German … electricity retail markets. Consumers observe the baseline price of the incumbent and decide whether or not to search. Incumbent … baseline rate while entrants decrease their tariffs if consumer search increases. Moreover, the incumbent price discriminates …
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