We examine the extent to which the network effects that lead to the adoption of an online social platform are local.
Using a regression discontinuity design, I estimate the causal effect of increasing product ratings by half a star on Wayfair.com to be a 5% increase in product demand.
When consumers only see prices once they visit stores, and some consumers have time to comparison shop, co-location commits stores to compete and lower prices, which draws consumers away from is
This paper contributes to the analysis of mergers in two-sided markets, in which a platform provides its service for free on one side but obtains all its revenues from the other.
We investigate how consumer information affects price adjustment in the Austrian retail gasoline market.
This paper presents a model of platform encroachment, in which a platform not only acts as an intermediary between consumers and third-party sellers, but also sells its first-party products.
We study the impact of the boycott on Japanese products, initiated in July 2019, in the Korean beer market.
We study a home rental market where hosts compete in prices of their listings and decide which guests to accept.
Cross-holdings affect firms’ behavior in other vertically related markets. We consider a vertical market with two downstream firms and an upstream firm engaging in cost-reducing R&D.
