Suleymanova, Irina; Wey, Christian - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2011
We analyze Bertrand duopoly competition in markets with network effects and consumer switching costs. Depending on the … ratio of switching costs to network effects, our modelerates four different market patterns: monopolization and market … only occurs for intermediate values of the ratio, whereas for large switching costs market sharing is the unique …