Not as good as it used to be: Do streaming platforms penalize quality?
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platform economics; media economics; content aggregator; recommendation bias; innovation;All these keywords.
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- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
- L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2024-08-19 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-CUL-2024-08-19 (Cultural Economics)
- NEP-IND-2024-08-19 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-MIC-2024-08-19 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-REG-2024-08-19 (Regulation)
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