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practices may play a major role explaining the rise of "winner-takes-it-all" markets on the Internet. The entry deterrence … "winner-takes-it-all" market results on the Internet may result from exclusionary practices, nourishing antitrust concerns … with today's major Internet players' market dominance …
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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 … identify an important link between termination fees, the online advertising market and Internet fragmentation. We extend the …
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Thanks to new digital technologies, web users are continuously targeted by offers that potentially fit their interests even if they are not actively looking for a product. Does this matching always promote transactions with high social value? We consider a model in which web users with...
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due to significant declines in entry costs. We instead find evidence of large roles for the development of the internet …
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of the Internet. The paper concludes that the centrifugalism due to fundamental economics and national priorities will … Internet traditionalists argue, the new system will actually be greater in innovation and opennness, and reduce global disputes …
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status quo. Such comparison motivates sorting across market segments and reshapes the whole marketplace. The Internet … Internet came into place, and (3) how supporting industries such as professional grading and card manufacturing adapted to take …
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status quo. Such comparison motivates sorting across market segments and reshapes the whole marketplace. The Internet … Internet came into place, and (3) how supporting industries such as professional grading and card manufacturing adapted to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057048
It is often claimed that e-commerce has created a more competitive environment by encouraging the entry of new online firms and by enabling buyers to search easily for the lowest prices. The limited evidence that exists paints a mixed picture. Many online markets are advertising- and...
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We test the concept of contestability in the digital music player market. The theory suggests that the threat of new entrants keeps firms' market power in check. But Baumol and others argue that pure contestable markets rarely happen in reality. The portable music player market has been...
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The rise of the fourth industrial revolution (IR) is deeply embedded in a wider context of privatization of knowledge, rising costs of innovation and uneven distribution of capacity between countries. But debates on a ‘balanced' policy framework to tackle these issues have until now floundered...
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