Die Digitalisierung hat Medienmärkte grundlegend verändert: Statt begrenzten Funkfrequenzen und festen Programm, werden Medieninhalte über unterschiedlichste Kanäle verteilt, erstellt, geteilt und diskutiert. Digitale Plattformen haben den Konsum grundlegend verändert und ermöglichen es...

Vorwort -- 1. Plattformbasierte Geschäftsmodelle -- 2. Charakteristika digitaler Plattformen -- 3. Wege in die Plattformökonomie -- 4. Marktplätze als Erfolgsbeispiel -- 5. Marktplätze: Stimmen aus der Praxis -- 6. Fazit.

Objectives of platform research: A co-citation and systematic literature review analysis -- Digitale Plattformen aus industrieökonomischer Sicht -- How to design trust on market platforms? -- Digitale Plattformen in der Logistikbranche am Beispiel der Lademittel-Plattform der swoplo AG --...

This textbook introduces and develops new tools to understand the recent economic crisis and how desirable economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network economies, which are based on the social division of labour. This second...

Videospiele und eSport im sportökonomischen Kontext -- Netzwerkeffekte und Risikofaktoren des Free-to-Play -- Free-to-Play als Anwendungsbeispiel für Lindahl-Preise -- Crowdfunding und der Contributed Prize Pool in Dota 2

‘This is the second book of a two-volume set that continues Adam Smith's work, using the tools mathematical, experimental, and behavioural economists have developed since 1776. As in the first volume, markets are not the central organising principle. Instead, attention centres on social...

Turkish consumer survey data is used to analyze the main factors that affect consumers' choice of different mobile telecommunications networks. The analysis shows that consumers' choice is significantly affected by the choices of other consumers with whom the consumer is more likely to interact....

Aktuell diskutierte Standards und Technologien (bspw. im Bereich Web Services) werden die IT-gestützte Kommunikation zwischen Unternehmen stark verändern. Die Standardisierungsentscheidung geht jedoch mit dem Risiko einher, einen Standard einzu-führen, den andere Unternehmen danach nicht...

The introduction of a new product generation forces incumbents in network industries to rebuild their installed base to maintain an advantage over potential entrants. We study if backward compatibility can help moderate this process of rebuilding an installed base. Using a structural model of...

Despite the empirical relevance of advertising strategies in concentrated markets,the economics literature is largely silent on the effect of persuasive advertisingstrategies on pricing, market structure and increasing (or decreasing) dominance.In a simple model of persuasive advertising and...

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

This paper analyses the interdependency between the market formusic recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positiveindirect network eects both from the record market to ticket sales forlive performances and vice versa. Using a model with two interrelatedSalop circles we show...

Im Zusammenhang mit dem Klimawandel wird der Einsatz grüner Antriebstechnologien im Automobilbereich seit einiger Zeit verstärkt diskutiert. Viele Regierungen zahlen bereits Kaufprämien oder ähnliches für Elektroautos und Co. Die deutsche Bundesregierung hält sich damit bisher zurück.Die...

Vorwörter -- Teil I: Allgemeine Grundlagen -- 1. Die Spielregeln der Softwareindustrie -- 2. Ökonomische Prinzipien der Softwareindustrie -- 3. Strategien der Softwareanbieter -- Geschäftsmodelle in der Softwareindustrie -- Teil II: Spezielle Themen -- 5. Outsourcing und Offshoring der...

We analyse firms' incentives to provide two-way compatibility between two network goodswith different intrinsic qualities. We study how the relative importance of verticaldifferentiation with respect to the network effect influences the price competition as well as thecompatibility choice. The...

Die Theorie der öffentlichen Güter, die bereits Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts durchAutoren wie Lindahl (Lindahl 1994) eingeleitet wurde, hat spätestens seit den Veröffentlichungenvon Samuelson (Samuelson 1954) nicht nur für die Finanzwissenschafteinen hohen Stellenwert. Da allerdings die von...

Die Frage nach den Pioniervorteilen im Internet wurde bislang nur unzureichend erforscht. Jantje Halberstadt untersucht diese Frage empirisch und zeigt auf, dass First-Mover-Vorteile in nationalen Märkten existieren, was im Wesentlichen auf dem Argument beruht, dass nationale First Mover die...

As is well-recognized, market dominance is a typical outcome in markets with network effects. A firm with a larger installed base others a more attractive product which induces more consumers to buy its product which produces a yet bigger installed base advantage. Such a setting is investigated...

Auf Basis bisheriger Arbeiten greift der Beitrag die Fragestellung einerunternehmenszentralen Koordination und Anreizsetzung zur Realisierung von Netzwerkeffektenbei dezentralen MW-Entscheidungen auf. Hierfür wird ein Optimierungsalgorithmus entwickelt,der anhand dokumentierter Daten bzgl. der...

In this paper, we present a theoretical model that, implementing the pioneering work of Burda (1995), based on the Real Option Theory, investigates the roots of the migration dynamics. In the model the decision to migrate of each individual depends not only on the wage differential, but also on...

1. Introduction : the poor craftsman and the wealthy inventor -- 2. Methods for an analysis of economic growth and network effects -- 3. A literature review : models of economic growth -- 4. Network economics -- 5. A complex model of growth, technological change and networks effects -- 6. Case...

A model of two-sided market (for credit cards) is introduced and discussed. In this model, agents can join none, one, or more than one platform (multihoming), depending on access prices and the choices made by agents on the opposite market side. Although emerging multihoming patterns are,...

We examine incentives for network-specific investment and the implications for network governance. We model an environment in which participants that make payments over a network can invest in a technology that reduces the marginal cost of using the network. A network effect results in multiple...

The paper analyses the timing of spontaneous environmental innovation when second-mover advantages, arising from the expectation of declining investment costs, increase the option value of waiting created by investment irreversibility and uncertainty about private payoffs. We then focus on the...

A. Allgemeine Grundlagen: Die Spielregeln in der Softwareindustrie -- Ökonomische Prinzipien der Softwareindustrie -- Strategien für Softwareanbieter -- B. Spezielle Themen: Outsourcing und Offshoring der Softwareentwicklung -- Plattformkonzepte -- Software as a Service -- Open Source Software...

The paper presents a model of a software monopolist who benefits from a lagged network externality arising from consumers' feedback through the so-called bug-fixing effect. That is, the software producer is able to correct errors in the software code detected by previous users, improving her...

The cloud computing paradigm gives rise to Web service marketplaces where complex services areprovided by several modular vendors. Recently more and more intermediaries are pushing onto themarket, thereby driving competition. Offering innovative business models which are capable ofattracting...

New Forms of Market Intermediation Matching Economic a nd Management Perspectives Nicolas Neysen Dissertation submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics and Management Sciences ...