When Is Building a Library Consortium Beneficial?

Doh-Shin Jeon and Domenico Menicucci

No 791, IDEI Working Papers from Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse

Abstract: This paper identifies strategies to build a library consortium from a long term point of view. Contrary to the conventional wisdom to build a consortium around groups of homogenous institutions (Davis, 2002), we find that libraries with similar preferences are likely to lose from building a consortium while libraries with opposite preferences almost always gain from it. Our results suggest a strong tension between a short-term strategy and a long-term strategy as long as the former dictates forming a consortium around libraries with homogenous preferences in order to gain from quantity discounts. This tension might create a "library consortium trap".

Keywords: Library Consortium; Academic Journals; Personalized Prices; Cor- relation; Multimarket contact; Level-playing Field (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D4 K21 L41 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08, Revised 2014-04-07
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