Search Results - subject:"network externalities."

Tying, Compatibility and Planned Obsolescence

Miao, Chun-Hui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

According to the hypothesis of planned obsolescence, a durable goods monopolist without commitment power has an excessive incentive to introduce new products that make old units obsolete, and this reduces its overall profitability. In this paper, I reconsider the above hypothesis by examining...

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Internet network externalities

Cooper, Russel; Madden, Gary G - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

which to direct empirical investigations. Most of the models in the literature on network externalities have been developed …

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Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Ruiz-Aliseda, Francisco - NET Institute - 2008

In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with...

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Empirically Testing for Indirect Network Externalities in the LCD Television Market

Scholten, Patrick A.; Livingston, Jeffrey A.; Ortmeyer, … - NET Institute - 2008

This paper examines price data on over 222 LCD televisions to estimate indirect network effects arising from two sources. First, we conjecture that the disconnect between the timing of when broadcasters are required to convert to an only digital-signal world and when television manufacturers...

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Hong Kong SAR Economic Integration with the Pearl River Delta

Unteroberdoerster, Olaf; Chen, Hongyi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Hong Kong SAR's economic integration with the Mainland has primarily taken place in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Taking stock of integration trends, this paper discusses key implications for ensuring economic benefits of further integration are sustained and associated costs minimized. Besides...

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Why Do Countries Peg the Way they Peg? the Determinants of Anchor Currency Choice

Oomes, Nienke; Meissner, Christopher M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

between 1980 and 1998 reveal that trade network externalities are a key determinant. This implies that anchor currency choice …

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Concurrence et régulation sur les marchés de plate-forme : une introduction

Wauthy, Xavier - In: Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique XLVII (2008) 1, pp. 39-54

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One-Way Compatibility, Two-Way Compatibility and Entry in Network Industries

Manenti, Fabio Maria; Somma, Ernesto - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2008

equilibrium unless side payments are allowed and the network externalities are sufficiently low. When both firms can build a one …

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The Diffusion of Internet: A Cross-Country Analysis

Cuberes, David - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper analyzes the process of Internet diffusion across the world using a panel of 199 countries during the time interval 1990-2004. We group countries in two categories, low and high income countries, and show that the Internet diffusion process is well characterized by an S-shape curve...

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Network Externalities and Critical Mass in the Mobile Telephone Network: a Panel Data Estimation

Baraldi, A. Laura - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper develops a simple demand model with network externalities which allow us to identify the shape of the … network externalities function in the mobile telephone market and to estimate the critical mass. If the mobile telephone … network exhibits positive network externalities, we expect that the demand curve is not downward sloping everywhere but it has …

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