Apple iOS is a closed platform;Google Android is open. In this paper,we combine data on iOS and Android tablet sales with data on the top 1000 mobile applications from both platforms for five European countries and estimate a structural demand model.We find that the quality of applications...

Major record labels have direct and indirect ownership in Spotify, which raises the obvious question: do major labels use their influence over music streaming to make it harder for their upstream competitors (independent labels) to compete. In search of evidence to answer this question, this...

This paper draws from the view of social historians and hypothesizes that both wealthy and Protestant residents of Dublin were fleeing the city due to distaste for its local government politics and taxation, in an era when local government was gaining importance. We use a limited...

One of the central tenets of industrial organisation is that increasing/decreasing market concentration is likely to lead to increased/reduced markups. But does this affect every consumer to the same extent? Previous literature agrees that there can be significant price dispersion even in the...

In their paper, Sampson (2023) introduces a theoretical framework and conducts empirical testing to elucidate the impact of gaps in countries' innovative efficiencies on income, wages, and trade dynamics. We successfully replicate the paper's findings by running the provided codes, and confirm...

Using Polish Labour Force Survey data, we examine whether competition for labour has induced individual pay to depend on outside options, availability and quality of jobs. Exploiting the lack of inter-regional job and worker flows we estimate the elasticity of individual pay, amongst a rich set...