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Identification of network externalities in markets for non-durables

Grajek, Michal - 2002

This paper introduces a structural econometric model of consumer demand for nondurable goods, which exhibits network … externalities. The structural model allows us to identify the parameters, which determine the strength of the externalities in the …

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Network externality and software piracy

Poddar, Sougata - 2002

The pervasiveness of the illegal copying of software is a worldwide phenomenon. Software piracy implies a huge loss of potential customers of original software buyers, which directly translates into revenue losses for the software industry. Given this, conventional wisdom would suggest the need...

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Intergenerational effects in the diffusion of new technology: The case of mobile phones

Liikanen, Jukka; Stoneman, Paul; Toivanen, Otto - 2002

Many new technologies exhibit clear generational changes. The empirical literature on technology diffusion traditionally analyses the spread of new technologies generically. We use data from the mobile phone industry, where first-generation (1G) and second-generation technologies (2G) can be...

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Network Industries in the New Economy

John, McGee; Tanya, Sammut-Bonnici - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

In this paper we discuss two propositions: the supply and demand of knowledge, and network externalities. We outline … of network externalities create new situations for our traditional industrial economy such that new types of economies of … economic mechanism: positive feedback, alternatively known as demand-side increasing returns, network effects, or network …

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Coordination, learning, and delay

Dasgupta, Amil - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper studies how the introduction of social learning with costs to delay affects coordination games with incomplete information. We present a tractable noisy dynamic coordination game with social learning and costs to delay. We show that this game has a unique monotone equilibrium. A...

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Externalités de réseaux vs. externalités informationnelles dans les dynamiques de localisation

Vicente, Jérôme - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine octobre (2002) 4, pp. 535-552

-market interactions. We distinguish between the role played by network externalities and the one played by information externalities in …

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R&D in Markets with Network Externalities

Vencatachellum, Désiré; Boivin, Caroline - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2002) 9, pp. 1-8

We study how network externalities affect research and development (R&D) investments by a non-cooperative duopoly that … offers compatible products. We find that multiple R&D equilibria may arise when network externalities are non linear in the … number of consumers. The lowest R&D equilibrium corresponds to the case where network externalities are absent. However, even …

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

Etziony, Amir; Weiss, Avi - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 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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Inviting Competition to Achieve Critical Mass

Etziony, Amir; Weiss, Avi - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 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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R&D in Markets with Network Externalities

Vencatachellum, Désiré; Boivin, Caroline - In: Economics Bulletin 12 (2002) 9, pp. 1-8

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