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The Competition Economics of Digital Platforms

Veljanovski, Cento - 2021

This article provides an overview of the competitive issues surrounding online platforms. The general theme is that while much has been made of the structural features of online platforms there is little hard evidence that these are durable monopolies. Nonetheless, there are concerns about the...

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Happily ever after? - vertical and horizontal mergers in the U.S. media industry

Stöhr, Annika; Noskova, Victoriia; Kunz-Kaltenhäuser, … - 2019

media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine …

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Indirect taxation in vertical oligopoly

Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - 2009

This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream … increase is more likely to be welfare reducing. We also demonstrate that downstream and upstream taxation are equivalent in the … downstream. -- Specific tax ; ad valorem tax ; value-added tax ; tax incidence ; tax efficiency ; indirect taxation ; imperfect …

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Network Externalities and Friendly Neighbors : When Firms Choose to Invite Competition

White, Dustin - 2017

Economic theory on the subject of barriers to entry focuses almost exclusively on firms seeking to preserve market …

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Data Brokers Co-Opetition

Gu, Yiquan - 2019

Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are “sub-additive”, with...

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Happily Ever After? – Vertical and Horizontal Mergers in the U.S. Media Industry

Stöhr, Annika - 2019

media content, including the AT&T-Time Warner and the Disney-Fox mergers. Using a theory-driven approach, we examine …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869100

Data Brokers Co-opetition

Gu, Yiquan - 2020

Data brokers share consumer data with rivals and, at the same time, compete with them for selling. We propose a “co-opetition” game of data brokers and characterise their optimal strategies. When data are “sub-additive” with the merged value net of the merging cost being lower than the...

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Exclusive data, price manipulation and market leadership

Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019

The unprecedented access of firms to consumer level data not only facilitates more precisely targeted individual pricing but also alters firms' strategic incentives. We show that exclusive access to a list of consumers can provide incentives for a firm to endogenously assume the price leader's...

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Competition in pricing algorithms

Brown, Zach Y.; MacKay, Alexander - 2019

Increasingly, retailers have access to better pricing technology, especially in online markets. Firms employ automated pricing algorithms that allow for high-frequency price changes. What are the implications for price competition? We develop a model of price competition where firms can differ...

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The Durable Internet : Preserving Network Neutrality Without Regulation

Lee, Timothy B. - 2014

An important reason for the Internet's remarkable growth over the last quarter century is the "end-to-end" principle that networks should confine themselves to transmitting generic packets without worrying about their contents. Not only has this made deployment of internet infrastructure cheap...

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