This Paper examines competition between a dominant network and a challenging network with third-degree or perfect price … competition and reduces average equilibrium prices. Because bandwagon effects are due to the incompatibility of networks, under … incentives to unilaterally degrade the quality for some targeted group of consumers in order to weaken competition. …

This paper examines one of the most important marketing strategies by software producers on the Internet. That is …

business model, and competition, result in the platform allowing one type of customers to participate in the platform for free … by the participants on the platform as well as have heightened focus on non-price competition when the participation for … concern a free platform side where there is no monetary measure of value. Finally, dynamic competition makes the analysis of …

status quo. Such comparison motivates sorting across market segments and reshapes the whole marketplace. The Internet … Internet came into place, and (3) how supporting industries such as professional grading and card manufacturing adapted to take …

status quo. Such comparison motivates sorting across market segments and reshapes the whole marketplace. The Internet … Internet came into place, and (3) how supporting industries such as professional grading and card manufacturing adapted to take …

, I further study how several factors, including competition by a large number of sellers, would affect the equilibrium …

platforms and platform competition, and elaborates on some routes taken by recent research. …

This paper studies imperfect price competition between two intermediaries in an electronic business …-to-business matching market with indirect network externalities. The intermediaries differ with regard to their ownership structure: an …