this type of price discrimination is the natural mode of competition in subscription markets such as long distance …

Does competition promote efficient platform pricing and market structures? We model imperfect platform competition … competition's impact on efficiency depends crucially on heterogeneity in users' valuations for network effects. The standard Flat … consequences of competition in calibrated models of the video game and newspaper industries.The appendices for this paper are …

increases their utilities and, at the same time, this lowers the prices due to intensified competition between firms. We …

This paper examines the informativeness of consumer information networks and their effect on price competition between … degree of competition, as consumers comparing more prices induce firms to compete more fiercely. We find that larger networks … imply better information transmission, which intensifies competition and decreases all the percentiles of the price …

This paper draws upon Feenstra and Ma (2007, 2008), to develop a model of asymmetric competition between multiproduct …

attempt to equalize competition among mobile wireless competitors. In this Bulletin, we review the Justice Department … good reasons to suspect the use value of larger carriers exceeds that of smaller carriers. Economic theory therefore … not be directed at equalizing competition among competitors, but the DOJ's recommendation is plainly aimed at doing so. We …