Playing computer games online is a fast growing, billion dollar industry which has received little academic attention. The industry exhibits a number of interesting economic features. The industry structure is determined by creative destruction as in Aghion and Howitt (1992) [Aghion, P., Howitt, P. 1992. A model of growth through creative destruction, Econometrica, 60(2), 323–351], with game ma...

In Internet auctions bidders frequently bid in one of three ways: either only early, or late, or they revise their early bids. This paper rationalizes all three bidding patterns within a single equilibrium. We consider a model of a dynamic auction in which bidders can search for outside prices during the auction. We …nd that in the equilibrium bidders with the low search costs bid only late and...

Reputation systems that rely on voluntary feedback from traders are important in creating and sustaining trust in markets. Reporting feedback, however, is often costly for the reporter and feedback is a public good. We combine theory with a laboratory experiment to study the effect of a novel seller precommitment mechanism on promoting feedback and market efficiency. Specifically, our precommit...

From the angle of competition policy, Voice over IP looks like a panacea. It not only brings better service, but it also increases competitive pressure on former telecommunications monopolists. This paper points to the largely overlooked downside. In a pure world of Internet telephony, there would be no charge for individual calls, nor for telephony, as distinct from other services running over...

We study how developers’ access to user data mediates the relationship between market power and product innovation in the mobile app industry. Developers with market power might more easily access user data through active data collection, which might imply less user privacy. Better access to user data might then facilitate more successful product innovations. Our empirical evidence is based on ...

Network neutrality has been at the center of US telecommunications policy for several years, culminating in a recent FCC order imposing a limited form of net neutrality on US broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The regulatory imposition of nondiscrimination and price regulation (the core of net neutrality) on ISPs has been hotly debated. In this paper, I review the recent economics lit...

This paper investigates whether larger quantities of historical data confer a competitive advantage to firms that offer Internet search. We study how the length of time that search engines retained their server logs affected the apparent accuracy of subsequent searches. Our analysis exploits changes in these policies prompted by the actions of the European Commission. We find little empirical e...

this paper estimates demand functions for wireless and wireline phone, using almost ideal demand system (aids) and attempts to test the hypothesis of substitutability between wireless and wireline in iran. the results indicate that the number of mobile subscribers has been growing more than the number of wireline subscribers over studied period. this maybe because of lower price of mobile acces...

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