business model. Within this context, the volume examines the economics of platform structure and firm competition within and …: innovation and competition in online markets; regulation, pricing and evaluation with real options; and empirical approaches to … market analysis. TOC:Part I: Innovation and Competition in Online Markets.- Part II: Regulation, Pricing and Evaluation by …

theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry. These theories are … applied to models of competition in quantities, prices and to patent races. The results are used to propose a new approach to … competition policy, and in particular to issues of abuse of dominance, which goes beyond the post-Chicago approach, and to analyse …