Platform Competition and Incumbency Advantage under Heterogeneous Switching Cost — Exploring the Impact of Data Portability

Platform Competition under Partial Belief Advantage

This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One of the platforms benefits from a partial belief advantage, in that each side believes that it is more likely that the other side will join the advantaged platform. We find that the degree of the platform’s belief advantage affects its decision regarding the business model (i.e., whether to subs...

Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage

Numerous scholars have documented a dramatic increase in incumbency advantage in US congressional elections and also state legislative elections over the past four decades.' For example, Gelman and King show that incumbents in the House of Representatives now receive about twelve extra percentage points solely as a result of holding congressional office during the campaign;' the comparable figu...

Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage