Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/38913 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3004
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The TV industry is a two-sided market where both advertisers and viewers buy access to the programs offered by competing TV channels. Under the current market structure advertising prices are typically set by TV channels while viewer prices are set by distributors (e.g. cable operators). The latter implies that the distributors partly internalize the competition between the TV channels, since they take into account the fact that a lower viewer price at one channel will harm rival channels. We nonetheless find that a shift to a market structure where both advertising prices and viewer prices are set competitively by the TV channels might increase joint industry profits. The reason is that this market structure, in contrast to the one we observe today, directly addresses the two-sidedness of the market. We also show that this is to the benefit for the viewers.
Subjects: 
price coordination
two-sided markets
media economics
JEL: 
D40
D62
L10
L82
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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