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The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry

Evans, David S. - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 3, pp. 359-391

Internet-based technologies are revolutionizing the stodgy $625 billion global advertising industry. There are a number of public policy issues to consider. Will a single ad platform emerge or will several remain viable? What are the consequences of alternative market structures for a web...

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Internet network externalities

Cooper, Russel; Madden, Gary - In: International Journal of Management and Network Economics 1 (2008) 1, pp. 21-43

empirical investigations. Most of the models in the literature on network externalities have been developed in a static …

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Identifying Formal and Informal Influence in Technology Adoption with Network Externalities

Tucker, Catherine - In: Management Science 54 (2008) 12, pp. 2024-2038

Firms introducing network technologies (whose benefits depend on who installs the technology) need to understand which user characteristics confer the greatest network benefits on other potential adopters. To examine which adopter characteristics matter, I use the introduction of a...

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Do Open Source Developers Respond to Competition? The Case Study

Gaudeul, Alex - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 2, pp. 239-263

argue from this case study that open source developers derive direct and indirect network externalities from the use of …

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Evolution of market shares with repeated purchases and heterogeneous network externalities

Janssen, Maarten; Mendys-Kamphorst, Ewa - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 17 (2007) 5, pp. 551-577

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Optimal Monopoly Price Paths with Expanding Networks

Gabszewicz, Jean; Garcia, Filomena - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 1, pp. 42-49

In this paper, we survey the literature on optimal pricing of a monopolist operating on a network industry. We also describe explicitly the optimal path of prices for a monopolist facing an expanding demand due to the presence of network effects. The optimal path of prices appears as a function...

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Two-sided Markets, Competitive Bottlenecks and Exclusive Contracts

Armstrong, Mark; Wright, Julian - In: Economic Theory 32 (2007) 2, pp. 353-380

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Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Social interaction is an important vehicle of human capital acquisition and its efficiency decreases in social distance. In this paper I establish that these two premises, given the socio-cultural differences between ethnic groups, explain the puzzling evidence that (i) minorities typically earn...

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Enterprises, incentives and networks: The formative years of the electrical network in Portugal, 1920-1947

Madureira, Nuno Luis - In: Business History 49 (2007) 5, pp. 625-645

Path-dependence, the formation of technological irreversibilities and ownership patterns, have recently been salient aspects in the study of historical networks. This article analyses the formative years of public utilities in a period where the advantages of co-ordination, interconnection or...

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Informational Cascades versus Network Externalities in Locational Choice: Evidence of 'ICT Clusters' Formation and Stability

Vicente, Jerome; Suire, Raphaël - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 2, pp. 173-184

Vicente J. and Suire R. (2007) Informational cascades versus network externalities in locational choice: evidence of … sequential and cumulative interactions. Informational externalities (and observational learning) are distinguished from network … externalities (and interactive learning) in location processes in order to compare the respective economic properties of stability …

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