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Law and economics of Microsoft vs. U.S. Department of Justice : new paradigm for antitrust in network markets or inefficient lock-in of antitrust policy?

Radke, Marc-Peter - 2001

influenced by BRIAN W. ARTHUR's theory of path dependence claiming (1) that high-technology markets being subject to network … dependence theory is only a theoretical curiosity that lacks empirical evidence. The predominance of a certain technology and … Microsoft's monopoly as it was claimed by the courts within their 'applications barrier to entry' theory. I claim that current …

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Tax incidence on competing two-sided platforms : lucky break or double jeopardy

Belleflamme, Paul; Toulemonde, Eric - 2016

We consider the effects of taxes for competing two-sided platforms. We first detail how a platform passes a tax increase on its prices. Adding price competition, we study next how the tax affects profits. Because of the strategic implications of the cross-side external effects, the tax increase...

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Preferences externalities in media markets

Anderson, Simon P.; Waldfogel, Joel - 2015

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Preference externalities in media markets

Anderson, Simon P.; Waldfogel, Joel - 2016

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Leader, or just dominant? : the dominant-firm model revisited

Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der - 2010 - Publisert 7. okt. 2010

I revisit the dominant-firm model and discuss its implicit assumption of a sequential move structure. I argue that a simultaneous move structure is often more reasonable and derive an alternative formulation of the model based on this approach. -- dominant firm ; monopoly with fringe ;...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine …

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...

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On preemption in discrete and continuous time

Steg, Jan-Henrik - 2016

The seminal work of Fudenberg and Tirole (1985) on how preemption erodes the value of an option to wait raises general questions about the relation between models in discrete and continuous time and thus about the interpretation of its central result, relying on an "infinitely fine grid". Here...

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