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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Two-Sided Markets"”.
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Essays In Two-Sided Markets With Intermediaries
In this thesis, I study the two-sided marketplaces with intermediaries that can facilitate matching, search and trades. The first chapter considers the welfare and distributional consequences of introducing the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism in a model where schools have exogenous …
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Essays on the Theory of Two-Sided Markets
Several markets have emerged in which consumers and sellers interact and make transactions through an intermediary or platform. Examples include smart phones, bank cards, game consoles, shopping centers but even airports. The peculiarity of these markets is that the actors join them because the …
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Two sided markets and efficiency in the Internet
Competition between network providers is believed to be a necessary condition for an efficient functioning Internet industry. It spurs technology innovation as network providers compete to provide better quality and enhanced services; improving consumers' welfare in the process. Given the impact of …
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Experimental studies of arbitration mechanisms and two-sided markets
… of different polices on the price stricter in a two-sided market monopoly.</p> <p>Promising results to improve arbitration used in the field are obtained from Amended Final Offer Arbitration (AFOA), which outperforms Final-Offer Arbitration (FOA) and weakly outperforms Conventional Arbitration …
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Essays on Uniform Pricing and Vertical Contracts in Two-sided Markets
… of uniform pricing and vertical contracts in two-sided markets. Various forms of uniform pricing and vertical contracts are present in the United States cable television market (Chapter 1), markets involving online purchasing platforms (Chapter 2), and in markets for health insurance (Chapter …
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Permissioned blockchain in a supply chain problem
… correctness of the information. Finally, using a two-sided markets model we provide a preliminary setup of a fee system that creates incentives to enter the platform: the blockchain network. Our results suggest that implementing blockchain improves the consumer’s welfare, while the manufacturer’s …
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Managing Self-Scheduling Capacity
… Lyft, Postmates, and Instacart have created markets in which independent service providers provide on-demand service to consumers. A hallmark of this arrangement is that providers decide for themselves when, where, and how much to work. In other words, the platform does not set its capacity's …
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Essays in credit markets and development economics
… available to Pakistani banks about a firm's creditworthiness. Prior to 2006, the SBP published credit information not only about the firm in question but also (aggregate) credit information about the firm's group (where the group was defined as the set of all firms that shared one or more director …
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Caught between two stools? Four essays on value creation and value extraction on free digital platforms
… digital platform for free. Extant research on two-sided markets has provided rich evidence for how digital platforms can attract enough members from both customer groups to enable the interaction between the customer groups. However, this research lacks insights into how free digital platforms …
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Dynamic Matching of Users and Creators on Social Media Platforms
Social media platforms are two-sided markets bridging content creators and users. Existing literature on content recommendation algorithms used by platforms often focuses on user preferences and decisions, and does not jointly address creator incentives. We propose a model of content recommendation …
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Value Creation from Complements in Platform Markets: Studies on the Video Game Industry
… goods (“complementors”) in platform-based markets. The studies all investigate the video game industry as a canonical example of a platform market. Three empirical studies are preceded by an industry chapter outlining the evolution of the video game industry as perceived by one of the …
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On the Adoption Dynamics of Internet Technologies: Models and Case Studies
… any time in history, our life-styles depend on networked systems, ranging from power grids to the Internet and social networks. From shopping online to attending a conference via P2P technologies, the Internet is changing the way we perform certain tasks, which incentivizes more users to join the …
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Three Essays on Middlemen in Intermediated Markets
… analysis of middlemen in intermediated markets. Chapter 1 gives a brief survey on the market intermediation literature and also briefly describes the subsequent chapters. In Chapter 2 I study the role of horizontally differentiated middlemen in a bilateral search market in which …
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A Theory of Viral Growth of Social Networking Sites
Social networking platforms, systems designed to provide digital content services specifically for social network sites (SNS), continue to develop through a rapid combination of components forming a service ecology that is much more than a single tool or service. These SNS have experienced …
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Rammed, jammed and bifurcated : the convergence and divergence of intellectual property and competition policy in the digital environment
… the competition policy of promoting competitive markets, including IP product markets is a model that provides for narrow IP protection (that focuses on the scope of the grant of the IPRs) with the application of competition policy (that treats the exercise of IPRs in the same way as the exercise …
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The Journey from Supplier to End Customer: Exploring the Dynamics of Supply Chain and Distribution Channels in the Hospitality Industry
… play an important intermediary role in the two-sided travel distribution market. A critical factor that enhances a firm's competitive advantage is innovation. Yet, the analysis of innovation in the OTA context is scarce. The main objective of the second part of this dissertation is to fill …
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Three Essays on New Challenges and Opportunities for Marketing in an Evolving Technological Environment
… to those changes, this dissertation addresses two major developments and related opportunities and challenges – namely, digitized retail environments and innovative, complex business models – in three different essays. Thereby, this dissertation contributes to a better understanding of the …
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Online Auction Markets
… a highly topical research domain. These two essays form the</p><p>foundation of the empirical research in this dissertation. The third</p><p>essay, ``Sponsored Search Auctions: Research Opportunities in</p><p>Marketing,'' outlines areas of future inquiry that I intend to</p><p>pursue in …