Search Results - subject:"network externalities."

Tying in two-sided markets with multi-homing

Choi, Jay Pil - 2007

This paper analyzes the effects of tying arrangements on market competition and social welfare in two-sided markets when economic agents can engage in multi-homing; that is, they can participate in multiple platforms in order to reap maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces...

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Innovation and Adoption of Electronic Business Technologies

Sülzle, Kai - 2007

This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When innovation and adoption require large set-up costs,...

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The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Groot, Stefan P.T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007

shows that network externalities play a major role in the use of standards, and that, on the other hand, worldwide standards …

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"A roasted duck can still fly away": A case study of technology, nationality, culture and the rapid and early internationalization of the firm

Zhang, M. Y.; Dodgson, M. - 2007

The possession of key international technical standards in some technology-based sectors can provide considerable advantages for firms wishing to internationalize rapidly and early. Avaro, a start-up Korean company, developed and owned a critical standard in the emerging international mobile...

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Optimal research effort and product differentiation in network industries

Winther, Christian Dahl - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2007

This paper studies the introduction of a new and incompatible technology in a spatial market with network externalities … technology in a spatial market with network externalities. In com- petition with an established network the paper investigates … solved by numerical methods. JEL classification: D85, L1, O33 Keywords: Network externalities, product differentiation …

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The Transaction Costs Perspective on Standards as a Source of Trade and Productivity Growth

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Groot, Stefan P.T.; Lazrak, Faroek - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

shows that network externalities play a major role in the use of standards, and that, on the other hand, worldwide standards …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256554

Diffusion and Competition of Innovative Cardiological Technologies

Grebel, Thomas; Wilfer, Tom - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

adopters and suppliers we simulate the evolution of a new market and iscuss the effects network externalities and individual …

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Durable Goods, Innovation and Network Externalities

Cerquera Dussán, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We develop a model of R&D competition between an incumbent and a potential entrant with network externalities and … problem and the efficiency of its R&D level are determined by the extent of the network externalities. …

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Network Externalities and Comparative Advantage

Kikuchi, Toru - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this article I examine how the network externalities of communications activities and trading opportunities interact …

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Price Discrimination in Two-Sided Markets

Liu, Qihong; Serfes, Konstantinos - NET Institute - 2007

We examine the profitability and the welfare implications of price discrimination in two-sided markets. Platforms have information about the preferences of the agents that allows them to price discriminate within each group. The conventional wisdom from one-sided horizontally differentiated...

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