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Self-preferencing, quality provision, and welfare in mobile application markets

Teng, Xuan - 2022

Platforms may give preferential treatment to their own products in search results. Whether and how to regulate this self-preferencing behavior is an intensely debated antitrust issue. This paper identifies self-preferencing and quantifies its equilibrium welfare effects in Apple App Store. I...

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Self-preferencing, quality provision, and welfare in mobile application markets

Teng, Xuan - 2023

Platforms often display their products ahead of third-party products in search. Is this due to consumers preferring platform-owned products or platforms engaging in self-preferencing by biasing search towards their own products? What are the welfare implications? I develop a structural model of...

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Sequentially Mixed Search and Equilibrium Price Dispersion

Shi, Shouyong - 2019

. Under a mild condition, policies that restore efficiency should lean against the wind to manage aggregate demand and supply …

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When the baby cries at night : inelastic buyers in non-competitive markets

Calzolari, Giacomo; Ichino, Andrea; Manaresi, Francesco; … - 2014

of demand composition and demand size with limited information on costs. We show how pharmacists in Italy selectively …

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Consumer Search and Oligopolistic Pricing: An Empirical Investigation

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2004

This paper presents an empirical examination of oligopoly pricingand consumer search. The theoretical model allows for sequential andnon-sequential search and using the theoretical restrictions firm andconsumer behavior impose on the data we study the empirical validity of themodels. Two...

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Horizontal Mergers and Divestment Dynamics in a Sunset Industry

Nishiwaki, Masato - 2015

business-stealing effect and fixed costs. Similarly, sunset industries with declining demand tend to be riddled with chronic … else's divestment, hoping to steal their business. This paper highlights the potential of mergers to internalize this … business-stealing effect and thereby promote divestment. Using the case of mergers in the Japanese cement industry, it examines …

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Asymmetric Sequential Search

Astorne-Figari, Carmen - 2016

This note explores asymmetries in the way consumers sample prices in a simple variation of Stahl's (1989) seminal model of sequential search. In the note, we characterize a unique equilibrium in which a firm that caters to more local consumers selects prices from a distribution which first order...

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Search Disclosure

Groh, Carl-Christian; Preuss, Marcel - 2022

We study information sharing between competing sellers in markets where consumers sample sellers sequentially. Sellers can disclose to their rival when they encounter a specific buyer. Providing this information, which we call search disclosure, can enable all forms of search history-based price...

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A Theory of Rent Seeking with Informational Foundations

Lagerlöf, Johan N. M. - 2006

I develop a model of rent seeking with informational foundations and an arbitrary number of rent seekers, and I compare the results with Tullock's (1980) classic model where the influence activities are "black-boxed." Given the microfoundations, the welfare consequences of rent seeking can be...

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Job search costs and incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012

search costs play a positive role, whose effect may outweigh the negative implications. As workers are provided incentives to …

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