• DocumentCode
    3272042
  • Title

    Welfare analysis of media merger from the platforms and two-sided-markets perspective

  • Author

    Liu, Xinrui ; Li, Mingzhi

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    28-30 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    Motivated by the recent trend of market consolidation in China´s medium industry, this research aims at analyzing the welfare effect of privatizing the news medium. With the dwindling and gradually withdraw of government subsidy, a wave of merger and acquisition is emerging in the market. This paper builds a model of medium platforms merger and compare the welfare in the situation of monopoly, competition and social optimal.
  • Keywords
    corporate acquisitions; China medium industry; acquisition; market consolidation; media merger; monopoly; two-sided-markets perspective; welfare analysis; welfare effect; Advertising; Broadcasting; Corporate acquisitions; Credit cards; Government; Industrial control; Industrial economics; Monopoly; Power generation economics; Shape measurement; Horizontal Differentiation; Medium Industry; Merger; Platform; Two-sided market;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM), 2010 7th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6485-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICSSSM.2010.5530122
  • Filename
    5530122