We examine how heterogeneity in customers' multi-homing tendencies affects a platform's response to new entrants in its market. We develop a formal model to generate empirical predictions and then test them leveraging a historical setting: TV broadcast station entry into local newspaper markets...

"We provide stylized facts on the evolving shape dynamics of the US personal income distribution from 1962 to 2000. Based on adaptive kernel density estimation, we propose an adaptive bootstrap test for multimodality. Our results indicate that multimodality has been a predominant feature of the...

"We provide a robustness check of the US Phillips curve in the frequency domain. We design frequency-specific coeffcients of correlation (FSCC) and regression (FSCR), based on our frequency-specific data extraction procedure. Being real-valued, signed and normalised, the FSCC is superior to...