Abstract Data brokers share consumer data with rivals and, at the same time, compete them for selling. We propose a ‘co-opetition’ game of and characterize their optimal strategies. When are ‘sub-additive’ merged value net merging cost being lower than sum values individual datasets, more likely to sell jointly. ‘super-additive’, greater competition emerges often. Finally, sharing is when effic...

Motivated by the emergence of popular service-based two-sided markets where sellers can serve multiple buyers at same time, we formulate and study cost sharing problem. In sharing, incur different costs for serving subsets have values being served sellers. Both are self-interested agents whose private information. We problem from perspective an intermediary platform that matches to assigns pric...

This paper performs a forensic analysis of Apple's transfer pricing cost sharing arrangement based on facts and documents that were disclosed in hearings before the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee Investigations May 2013 an investigation arrangements by European Commission between 2016 as part its State Aid investigation, related court filings Europe other sources. The finds Apple provided c...