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Chapter 31 Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects

Farrell, Joseph; Klemperer, Paul - In: Handbook of industrial organization : volume 3, (pp. 1967-2072). 2007

Switching costs and network effects bind customers to vendors if products are incompatible, locking customers or even markets in to early choices. Lock-in hinders customers from changing suppliers in response to (predictable or unpredictable) changes in efficiency, and gives vendors lucrative ex...

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Ein Modell der Netzwerkeffekte in der Software-Industrie

Gröhn, Andreas - 1997

Computerbesitzer kombinieren Komplementärguter zu einem Computersystem. Mit dem Computersystem möchten sie Daten mit anderen Nachfragern und zwischen verschiedenen Applikationen austauschen. Aus diesen Interdependenzen ergeben sich drei verschiedene Netzwerkeffekte, die im Rahmen eines...

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Netzwerkeffekte: eine neue Begründung für die strategische Handelspolitik?

Gröhn, Andreas - 1997

Netzwerkeffekte können zu imperfektem Wettbewerb führen und damit eine strategische Handelspolitik begründen. In einem Modell horizontaler Differenzierung mit Netzwerkeffekten wird die Wirkung strategischer Handelspolitik untersucht. Es zeigt sich, daß staatliche Interventionen tatsächlich...

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Compatibility and Market Structure for Network Goods

Economides, Nicholas; Flyer, Fredrick - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 1997

This paper analyzes the economics of industries where network externalities are significant. In such industries, firms … have strong incentives to adhere to common technical compatibility standards, so that they reap the network externalities … find that the presence of network externalities dramatically affects conventional welfare analysis, as total surplus in …

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Contracting with Externalities

Segal, Ilya - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 1997

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Netzwerkeffekte in der Software-Industrie: Eine Analyse der empirischen Literatur

Gröhn, Andreas - 1996

Es wird vielfach vermutet, daß die Software-Industrie von starken Netzwerkeffekten geprägt ist. Doch wie hoch sind die Netzwerkeffekte wirklich? Für die Messung der Netzwerkeffekte bietet sich der hedonische Preisansatz an. Zwei Anwendungen des hedonischen Preisansatzes in der...

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Network externalities and long-run market shares

Mitchell, Matthew; Skrzypacz, Andrzej - In: Economic Theory 29 (2006) 3, pp. 621-648

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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) - 2006

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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Coordination and Lock-In: Competition with Switching Costs and Network Effects

Farrell, Joseph; Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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Entry Strategies Under Competing Standards: Hybrid Business Models in the Open Source Software Industry

Bonaccorsi, Andrea; Giannangeli, Silvia; Rossi, Cristina - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1085-1098

The paper analyzes the strategies of software firms that have entered the open source (OS) field. The notion of the OS business model is discussed in the light of a substantial body of theoretical literature concerning strategic management and the economics of innovation, as well as specialized...

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