Showing 1 - 10 of 241
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339405
Bayesian learning and quantal response equilibrium (QRE) - above all in complex environments with many possible actions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307880
Successful coordination is key for economic and societal wealth. The rich literature on the minimum-effort game (MEG …) has provided valuable insights into coordination, both theoretically and empirically. Yet, although real-world scenarios … often involve asymmetric benefits and/or costs from coordination, most previous studies rely on symmetric MEGs. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438170
This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband In-ternet access in regional markets with different population densities. The firms, an incumbent and an entrant, differ in two ways. First, consumers bear costs when switching to the entrant. Second, the entrant faces a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526221
Recent theoretical models of network competition with call externalities demonstrate strategic incentives of incumbent providers to reduce receiver benefits in rival network by excessive off-net pricing. Such anti-competitive pricing practices have a potentially damaging impact on financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606100
In this paper, we use a unique database on switching between mobile handsets in a sample of about 5,000 subscribers using tariffs without commitment from a single mobile operator on monthly basis between March 2012 and December 2014. We estimate discrete choice model in which we account for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005366
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174520
coordination necessary to transact online, making it a timely invention in the age of progressing digitalization and increasing … interest in the coordination aspect of the contract scholarship. The aim of this conceptual paper is to model blockchain as a … coordination mechanism for online transactions. Three key aspects of coordination with blockchains are identified and examined – (1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214932
transformed into a coordination problem that is much easier to deal with (Barrett, 2013). This holds in particular if the amount … a multiplicity of equilibria in this coordination problem, the assumption that outsiders will always successfully …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438081
Platforms that are understood as a place or system coordinating the interaction of different stakeholders (e.g., service consumers and providers) may enable widespread adoption of IoT services and applications. However, the lack of interoperability between platforms may inhibit the diffusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012283