The Impact of the Agency Model on E-book Prices: Evidence from the UK
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Keywords
e-books; agency; resale price maintenance; Amazon; double machine learning; Latent Dirichlet allocation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
- L42 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Vertical Restraints; Resale Price Maintenance; Quantity Discounts
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- L82 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Entertainment; Media
- Z11 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economics of the Arts and Literature
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CMP-2021-03-22 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-COM-2021-03-22 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CUL-2021-03-22 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-EUR-2021-03-22 (Microeconomic European Issues)
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