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Why do some streaming platforms offer no-cost channels or packages?

Zero-Price Goods and Cross-Subsidisation in Digital Markets

Many consumers use at least one zero-price streaming platform to provide entertainment. Why do companies offer zero-cost digital entertainment? How do they make money? Will this model survive in the long run?...
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Business economics

Complex monopolies

Saddique Ansari • January 20, 2020 • 1 min read

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Complex monopolies

A complex monopoly is said to exist whenever firms tacitly collude, and act as if they are a single firm.

The Fair Trading Act 1973, first defined a complex monopoly as a number of firms with a collective market share of over 25% that operate very similar or identical price and non-price policies.

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Many bosses today use "bossware" to measure and analyze the computer use of white collar workers.

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Today, many white collar workers are surveilled using "bossware" to log and monitor their online work performance. What are the economic ramification of using algorithmic management and digital surveillance on office employees?...
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