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Øystein Foros
Researcher at Norwegian School of Economics
Publications - 92
Citations - 1520
Øystein Foros is an academic researcher from Norwegian School of Economics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Competition (economics) & The Internet. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 88 publications receiving 1434 citations. Previous affiliations of Øystein Foros include University of Rochester.
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Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse competition between two retailers of broadband access when they differ in their ability to offer value-added services, and show that access price regulation may lower consumer surplus and welfare if retailers do not differ too much.
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Hotelling competition with multi-purchasing: Time Magazine, Newsweek, or both?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that prices behave quite differently if consumers single-purchase (buy either Time Magazine or Newsweek) or if some consumers multi-purchase (buy both).
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Competition and compatibility among Internet Service Providers
Øystein Foros,Bjørn Hansen +1 more
TL;DR: This model exhibits network externalities and finds that the firms overinvest, as compared to the welfare maximising investment level, when it is costly to invest in compatibility.
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Competition for Advertisers and for Viewers in Media Markets
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed an incremental pricing model for advertising-financed media, which assumes consumers patronise a single media platform, precluding effective competition for advertisers, and the principle of incremental pricing implies that multi-homing consumers are less valuable to platforms.
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Do Slotting Allowances Harm Retail Competition
Øystein Foros,Hans Jarle Kind +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that this controversy is partially caused by inadequate assumptions of how the retail market is structured and organized, and they show that there are good reasons to expect anti-competitive effects of slotting allowances.