Mergers in Two-Sided Markets: An Application to the Canadian Newspaper Industry

By Ambarish Chandra, Allan Collard-Wexler. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Media Technology, Strategy and Management

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Competition and antitrust in internet markets (2016, background): “Hence, strong network effects can easily lead to highly concentrated market structures, but strong network effects also tend to make these highly concentrated market structures efficient (also see Weyl, 2010; Chandra and Collard-Wexler, 2009).”
Ownership Consolidation and Product Characteristics: A Study of the US Daily Newspaper Market (2013, background): “Examples in this literature include Rosse (1967); Ferguson (1983); Genesove (1999); Argentesi and Filistrucchi (2007); George (2007); Chandra and Collard-Wexler (2009); Gentzkow and Shapiro (2010); Chiang and Knight (2011); as well as SchulhoferWohl and Garrido (2012).”
Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, unknown): “Researchers also began to study (horizontal) mergers between platforms (e.g., Chandra & Collard-Wexler, 2009; Correia-da-Silva, Jullien, Lefouili, & Pinho, 2019; Jeziorski, 2014; Zou & Jiang, 2020), usually anticipating that such mergers would lead to levels of market power that had the potential…”
Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers (2014, background): “Chandra and Collard-Wexler (2009) study changes to subscription prices following newspaper mergers.”
One-side value-added service investment and pricing strategies for a two-sided platform (2016, background): “Chandra and Collard-Wexler (2009) present an economic model of the newspaper market.”
Semi-collusion in media markets (2011, background): “While Chandra and Collard-Wexler (2009) find no significant impact of consolidation on copy prices and ad rates, Fan (2010) finds support for higher copy prices.”