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The importance of multi-homing : merger implications in the digital newspaper market

Gillebo, Maren; Sundkvist, Kamilla
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2020
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Abstract
In this paper we analyse the choice of consumer prices and qualities and welfare implications

from a merger in the digital newspaper market. In this market, the digital newspapers

sell access to consumers and the attention of these consumers to advertisers. This media

market has been extensively researched, mostly due to this two-sided nature, but most

papers assume that the consumers buy one and only one variant of a good. However, a

large share of the Norwegian population read two or more digital newspapers on an average

day, a behavior referred to as multi-homing. We contribute to the existing literature by

relaxing the assumption and allow for multi-homing. To assess the merger implications, we

present two version of a theoretical model and compare across the two versions. Our main

contribution is that we find greatly differing implications of a merger when consumers

multi-home compared to when they buy access to only one digital newspaper. We find that

a merger leads to increased average consumer price and quality provided when consumers

buy access to only one digital newspaper. Moreover, even though consumers are strictly

worse off, a merger can actually be welfare enhancing. Howbeit, when allowing for

multi-homing consumers, we find that the competing digital newspapers are strategically

independent on the consumer side of the market, while the merged digital newspapers

will charge higher prices to the advertisers for the consumers they share. The competition

flips to the other side of the market, leaving the consumers unaffected by a merger and

letting the advertisers bear the burden. Still, as the digital newspapers extract the lost

surplus of the advertisers, the total welfare is in fact left unaffected by a merger under

multi-homing.

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