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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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Product quality, competition, and multi-purchasing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce quality that is more appreciated by closer consumers and then higher common quality raises equilibrium prices, in contrast to the standard neutrality result, in a Hotelling duopoly model, where consumers can buy one out of two goods (single-purchase) or both (multipurchase).
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Are Interactive TV-Pioneers and Surfers Different Breeds? Broadband Demand and Asymmetric Cross-Price Effects
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider two different qualities of broadband access, one that simply means greater access speed to Internet applications and content, and a premium version that also gives access to interactive TV services.
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On the Choice of Royalty Rule to Cover Fixed Costs in Input Joint Ventures
TL;DR: In this article, a model where two competing downstream firms establish an input joint venture (JV) and analyze how different royalty rules for covering fixed costs affect channel profits, they find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme.
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Competition for advertisers and for viewers in media markets
TL;DR: The principle of incremental pricing implies that multi-homing consumers are less valuable to platforms as mentioned in this paper, which may result in platforms bias content against multi-home consumers, especially if consumers highly value overlapping content and/or second impressions have low value.
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Empirical Evidence on the Relationship between Mobile Termination Rates and Firms' Profits†
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of mobile termination rates (MTRs) on mobile operators' profits has been investigated and it is shown that when firms offer bundles with fixed included usage, an identical change in all MTRs does not affect firms' retail prices or profits.