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Cost Pass-Through with Network Externalities

Baraldi, Anna Laura; Rojas, Christian - In: International Journal of Business and Economics 10 (2011) 3, pp. 177-199

We analyze the rate at which cost shocks are passed through to prices when the market exhibits network externalities …. We find that the pass-through rate is smaller in the presence of network externalities. Also, the deadweight loss created …

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Spatial collocation and venture capital in the US biotechnology industry

Kolympiris, Christos; Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas; … - In: Research Policy 40 (2011) 9, pp. 1188-1199

to local markets for specialized inputs (e.g., skilled researchers) and from local knowledge spillovers and network … externalities. If such gains exist, we expect that the collocated firms should exhibit positively correlated performance, including …

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A Short Survey of Network Economics

Shy, Oz - In: Review of Industrial Organization 38 (2011) 2, pp. 119-149

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From Network Externalities to Broadband Growth Externalities: a Bridge not yet Built

Mayo, John; Wallsten, Scott - In: Review of Industrial Organization 38 (2011) 2, pp. 173-190

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Finance and Governance in Developing Economies

Morck, Randall - In: Annual Review of Financial Economics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 375-406

Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of externalities that otherwise lock in a low-income equilibrium, but runs afoul of well-known government failure problems. Successful Big Push coordination may occur instead when a...

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Herd effects or migration networks? The location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance … network and herd effects in our empirical work. In order to distinguish between herd and network externalities, we use the … Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …

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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S. - 2002

compared with the network externalities explanation of the same phenomenon. The relation between social tensions and herd …

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Non-Tariff Barriers and the Telecommunications Sector

Stephenson, Sherry M. - 2002

This paper discusses the nature, importance, and measurement of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in services trade with particular reference to telecommunications services. It is shown that although more effectively addressed for the telecom sector at the multilateral level than for other service...

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Inviting Competition to Achieve Critical Mass

Etziony, Amir; Weiss, Avi - 2002

In this paper we analyze a network market in which it is beneficial for a producer to invite competitors to share a market, even when this is not needed in order to affect consumer beliefs. Because of the nature of such goods, the demand curve for network markets typically rises and then falls....

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Credibility, Pre-Production and Inviting Competition in a Network Market

Etziony, Amir; Weiss, Avi - 2002

In this paper we considered a new solution to the credibility problem present in network industries. This problem arises because the value of a network good to its owner depends positively on the number of consumers who buy the good. Because of this property, it is in the interest of the...

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