Dominant or apparently dominant internet platform increasingly become subject to both antitrust investigations and further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate is already on the horizon – the ubiquitous online...

The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...

Internet users often visit multiple ad-financed websites as a bundle to fulfill their needs. We ask whether complementary websites have the right incentives to choose their advertising policies. We identify two forces that distort equilibrium away from the industry optimum and the efficient...

Serbian: Раст примене интернета и ИКТ и развој дигиталне економије крајем прошлог и почетком новог века истакли су с новом снагом проблеме конкуренције и повезана...

Firms can now use algorithms to regulate workers’ time and activities more stringently than ever before. Using rich transaction data from a ride-hailing company in Asia, we document algorithmic wage-setting and study its impact on worker behavior. The algorithm profiles drivers based on their...

Russian Abstract: С ростом применения ИКТ технологий и развитием цифровой экономики в конце прошлого и начале нового столетия вопросы конкуренции, её природы и роли в...

Platforms acting as sales channels for producers often charge users for access, via a subscription fee or a markup on hardware. We compare two common forms of vertical pricing agreement that platforms use with sellers: per-­unit and proportional fees. In particular, we analyze the critical role...

In this paper, we first develop a game theoretic model of price competition between a pure play e-tailer and a bricks-and-clicks e-tailer. We show that in general, the pure play e-tailer has a lower equilibrium price. We then develop a simultaneous equation model of e-tailer price and traffic...

This paper presents a novel method for estimating the likely welfare effects of competition reforms for both current and new consumers. Using household budget survey data for 2015/16 for Ethiopia and assuming a reform scenario that dilutes the market share of the state-owned monopoly to 45...

Balancing the needs of information distributors and their audiences has grown harder in the age of the Internet. While the demand for attention continues to increase rapidly with the volume of information and communication, the supply of human attention is relatively fixed. Markets are a social...