Information Economics and Policy

1983 - 2025

Current editor(s): D. Waterman

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Structural remedies as a signaling device pp. 1-6: Markus Dertwinkel-Kalt and Christian Wey
Bundling, à la carte pricing and vertical bargaining in a two-sided model pp. 30-44: Minghua Chen, Adam D. Rennhoff and Konstantinos Serfes
Managing spillovers: An endogenous sunk cost approach pp. 45-64: Olena Senyuta and Kresimir Zigic
Disentangling income and price effects in the demand for time online pp. 65-75: Jorge González Chapela
Side payments, litigation risk and settlement outcomes pp. 76-81: Elisabetta Ottoz and Franco Cugno

Even the losers get lucky sometimes: New products and the evolution of music quality since Napster pp. 1-15: Luis Aguiar and Joel Waldfogel
Sales displacement and streaming music: Evidence from YouTube pp. 16-26: Scott Hiller
Digital music consumption on the Internet: Evidence from clickstream data pp. 27-43: Luis Aguiar and Bertin Martens
What’s in a name? Measuring prominence and its impact on organic traffic from search engines pp. 44-57: Michael Baye, Babur De los Santos and Matthijs Wildenbeest
On the “uniform pricing puzzle” in recorded music pp. 58-66: Martin Richardson and Frank Stähler

Estimating demand for fixed-mobile bundles and switching costs between tariffs pp. 1-10: Lukasz Grzybowski and Julienne Liang
The economics of crowdfunding platforms pp. 11-28: Paul Belleflamme, Nessrine Omrani and Martin Peitz
Ownership and pricing of information: A model and application to open access pp. 29-42: James Campbell
Consumer uncertainty and price discrimination through online coupons: An empirical study of restaurants in Shanghai pp. 43-55: (Catherine) Zhang, Jie, Scott Savage and Yongmin Chen
Personalized pricing versus history-based pricing: implications for privacy policy pp. 56-68: Topi Miettinen and Rune Stenbacka

Economic, political and socio-cultural welfare in media merger control: An analysis of the Belgian and Dutch competition authorities’ reviews of media mergers pp. 2-15: Miriam Van der Burg and Hilde Van den Bulck
Regulating termination charges in asymmetric oligopolies pp. 16-28: Dongyeol Lee
A survey on software piracy empirical literature: Stylized facts and theory pp. 29-37: Nicolas Dias Gomes, Pedro Cerqueira and Luís Alçada Almeida
Copyright protection and entry deterrence pp. 38-45: Firat Inceoglu
In-house publishing and competition in the video game industry pp. 46-57: Tim Thomes
“Selling Out” and the impact of music piracy on artist entry pp. 58-64: Joshua Gans
Musicians and the Creative Commons: A survey of artists on Jamendo pp. 65-76: Stephen Bazen, Laurence Bouvard and Jean-Benoit Zimmermann
Making money by giving it for free: Radiohead’s pre-release strategy for In Rainbows pp. 77-93: Marc Bourreau, Pınar Doğan and Sounman Hong

Music piracy: Bad for record sales but good for the iPod? pp. 1-12: Tin Cheuk Leung
Geographic access markets and investments pp. 13-21: Marc Bourreau, Carlo Cambini and Steffen Hoernig
Digital piracy: Price-quality competition between legal firms and P2P network hosts pp. 22-32: Yang-Ming Chang and Jason Walter
Herd journalism: Investment in novelty and popularity in markets for news pp. 33-46: Benjamin Ho and Peng Liu
Storming the gatekeepers: Digital disintermediation in the market for books pp. 47-58: Joel Waldfogel and Imke Reimers
Media competition enhances new-product entry: On the market for fake observations pp. 59-66: Kjell Arne Brekke and Tore Nilssen
An insurance contract with a low compensation period under adverse selection pp. 67-74: Ben-jiang Ma, Chun-guang Qiu and Wen-jie Bi

You get what you want: A note on the economics of bad news pp. 1-5: Jill McCluskey, Johan Swinnen and Thijs Vandemoortele
Should a firm engage in behaviour-based price discrimination when facing a price discriminating rival? A game-theory analysis pp. 6-18: Stefano Colombo
The willingness to pay for broadband of non-adopters in the U.S.: Estimates from a multi-state survey pp. 19-35: Octavian Carare, Chris McGovern, Raquel Noriega and Jay Schwarz
Hotelling competition and political differentiation with more than two newspapers pp. 36-49: Stefan Behringer and Lapo Filistrucchi

Empirical evidence of network neutrality – The incentives for discrimination pp. 1-9: Daeho Lee and Yong-Hwa Kim
Old technology upgrades, innovation, and competition in vertically differentiated markets pp. 10-31: Marc Bourreau, Paolo Lupi and Fabio Manenti
Does broadband internet reduce the unemployment rate? Evidence for Germany pp. 32-45: Nina Czernich
The impact of electronic financial payments on crime pp. 46-57: Laura E. Armey, Jonathan Lipow and Natalie Webb

Misleading advertising and minimum quality standards pp. 1-14: Keisuke Hattori and Keisaku Higashida
Defensive publishing by a leading firm pp. 15-27: Justin P. Johnson
Media diversity, advertising, and adaptation of news to readers’ political preferences pp. 28-38: Armando Garcia Pires
Market definition for broadband internet in Slovakia – Are fixed and mobile technologies in the same market? pp. 39-56: Lukasz Grzybowski, Rainer Nitsche, Frank Verboven and Lars Wiethaus
The interplay between network investment and content quality: Implications to net neutrality on the Internet pp. 57-69: Edmond Baranes
Broadband investment and welfare under functional and ownership separation pp. 70-82: Alessandro Avenali, Giorgio Matteucci and Pierfrancesco Reverberi
The drivers and impediments for cross-border e-commerce in the EU pp. 83-96: Estrella Gomez-Herrera, Bertin Martens and Geomina Turlea

The regulation of markets with interdependent demands pp. 1-12: Raffaele Fiocco and Carlo Scarpa
Spectrum license auctions with exit (and call) options: Alternative remedies for the exposure problem pp. 13-23: Luke Hu and Elmar Wolfstetter
Broadband prices in the European Union: Competition and commercial strategies pp. 24-38: Joan Calzada and Fernando Martínez-Santos
Behavior-based price discrimination with retention offers pp. 39-51: Rosa Esteves

Market-based measures of viewpoint diversity pp. 1-11: Adam D. Rennhoff and Kenneth Wilbur
99 Cent: Price points in e-commerce pp. 12-27: Franz Hackl, Michael E. Kummer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
Investment under uncertainty and regulation of new access networks pp. 28-41: Roman Inderst and Martin Peitz
Exclusive quality – Why exclusive distribution may benefit the TV-viewers pp. 42-57: Johan Stennek
Determinants of broadband access: Is platform competition always the key variable to success? pp. 58-67: Xavier Fageda, Rafael Rubio-Campillo and Montserrat Termes-Rifé
Competition, endogeneity and the winning bid: An empirical analysis of eBay auctions pp. 68-74: Ilke Onur and Malathi Velamuri
Firm value in emerging network industries pp. 75-87: Lorenz Schneider