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View article: Digital business models and quality investment
Digital business models and quality investment Open
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View article: Horizontal Mergers and Incremental Innovation
Horizontal Mergers and Incremental Innovation Open
We study the impact of horizontal mergers on the incentives of merging …rms to invest in incremental innovation. We provide a decomposition of this impact that clari…es the various forces at work and the di¤erences between demand-enhancing…
View article: Mergers and demand-enhancing innovation
Mergers and demand-enhancing innovation Open
We study the impact of horizontal mergers on merging firms’ incentives to invest in demand-enhancing innovation. In our baseline model, we identify four effects of a symmetric merger on these incentives: the innovation diversion effect, th…
View article: Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market
Market Entry, Fighting Brands, and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market Open
We study a major new entry in the French mobile telecommunications market, followed by the introduction of fighting brands by the three incumbents. Using an empirical oligopoly model, we find that the incumbents’ fighting brand strategies …
View article: Streaming platform and strategic recommendation bias
Streaming platform and strategic recommendation bias Open
We consider a platform that carries content from two upstream content providers and presents personalized recommendations to participating customers. We focus on streaming platforms in media markets, where users pay a subscription fee to j…
View article: Does digitization lead to the homogenization of cultural content?
Does digitization lead to the homogenization of cultural content? Open
Using weekly music charts data in 10 countries over the period 1990–2015, we analyze whether digitization leads to a trend of homogenization of music content or conversely to a greater acoustic disparity. We split the digitization era in f…
View article: Public vs. Private Investments In Network Industries
Public vs. Private Investments In Network Industries Open
We study the competition between a private firm and public firms on prices andinvestment in new infrastructures. While the private firm maximizes its profits, public firms maximize the sum of their profits and consumer surplus, subject to …
View article: Privacy, Competition, and Multi-Homing
Privacy, Competition, and Multi-Homing Open
Two firms compete in prices and information disclosure levels. Firms derive revenues from two possible channels, i.e., by selling their service to consumers and by exploiting user data, sold to a monopoly data broker. A consumer signing up…
View article: Data for Prominence on Dominant Online Platforms
Data for Prominence on Dominant Online Platforms Open
It is crucial for content providers (CPs) to appear prominently on dominant online platforms in order to attract consumer demand. Apart from organic search results, content providers can obtain such prominence also in return for a monetary…
View article: Unbundling the incumbent and deployment of high-speed internet: Evidence from France
Unbundling the incumbent and deployment of high-speed internet: Evidence from France Open
In this paper, we study the impact of competition on the legacy copper network on the deployment of high-speed broadband. We first develop a theoretical model, which shows that the relation between the number of competitors and investment …
View article: Recent or Free? An Experimental Study of the Motivations for Pirating Movies
Recent or Free? An Experimental Study of the Motivations for Pirating Movies Open
The emergence of online providers aggregating illegal content from streaming platforms is rekindling the debate about online piracy. In the past, the discussion mainly focused on the impact of piracy in content industries and the effect of…
View article: Why would artists favor free streaming?
Why would artists favor free streaming? Open
While streaming services are becoming the dominant way to consume recorded music, professional musicians remain divided in their opinion toward streaming, especially toward free (ad-supported) services that generate very low royalties. Thi…