Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers

By Robert C. Seamans, Feng Zhu. Management Sciences, 2014

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Strategy and Management

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Can You Gig It? An Empirical Examination of the Gig Economy and Entrepreneurial Activity (2018, positive): “While the introduction of these disruptive platforms may speed the demise of incumbents (Seamans and Zhu 2013), possibly eliminating some jobs in the process, our results suggest that individuals with weak attachments to the labor market may in fact benefit from this creative destruction.”
The Current and Future State of the Sharing Economy (2017, background): “…would additionally raise the need for peer-to-peer entry to make available these services thus creating competition and may even raise service quality that brings forth technological advancements and competition ultimately beneficial to the consumer (Seamans & Zhu, 2013; Wallsten & Wallsten, 2015).”
Platform Competition: A Systematic and Interdisciplinary Review of the Literature (2020, neutral): “Other contexts that have been frequently studied include newspapers (Argentesi & Filistrucchi, 2007; Seamans & Zhu, 2014, 2017), CD players (Basu, Mazumdar & Raj, 2003; Gandal, Kende, & Rob, 2000), enterprise-resource-planning software (Ceccagnoli, Forman, Huang, & Wu, 2012; Huang, Ceccagnoli,…”
Online rental housing market representation and the digital reproduction of urban inequality (2019, background): “Today, however, Craigslist has become the foremost such venue in the USA, even as potential competitors like Facebook, Zillow, and Trulia try to challenge its near-monopoly in online listings (Brown, 2014; Hau, 2006; Kroft and Pope, 2014; Seamans and Zhu, 2014; Yurieff, 2017).”
Show Me the Way to Go Home: An Empirical Investigation of Ride-Sharing and Alcohol Related Motor Vehicle Fatalities (2017, background): “Interestingly, a bevy of topics have been investigated, ranging from dating (Bapna et al. 2012), to the disruption of established media vendors (Seamans and Zhu 2013), to the spread of HIV (Chan and Ghose 2014; Greenwood and Agarwal 2016), to crowdfunding (Burtch et al. 2013), and even to the…”
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb (2018, neutral): “A limited number of papers have looked at the effect of online platforms on incumbents, in particular Zervas et al. (2015) for Airbnb, Seamans and Zhu (2014) and Kroft and Pope (2014) for Craigslist, and Aguiar and Waldfogel (2015) for Spotify.”