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Network Externalities and Government Restrictions on Satellite Broadcasting of Key Sporting Events

Boardman, Anthony; Hargreaves-Heap, Shaun - In: Journal of Cultural Economics 23 (1999) 3, pp. 165-179

reduce consumer surplus due to network externalities. People talk about things they have in common. When fewer people share …

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A Punctuated-Equilibrium Model of Technology Diffusion

Loch, Christoph H.; Huberman, Bernardo A. - In: Management Science 45 (1999) 2, pp. 160-177

We present an evolutionary model of technology diffusion in which an old and a new technology are available, both of which improve their performance incrementally over time. Technology adopters make repeated choices between the established and the new technology based on their perceived...

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The Installed Base Effect: Some Empirical Evidence From The Microcomputer Market

Koski, Heli - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 8 (1999) 4, pp. 273-310

evidence for the importance of network externalities and suggests that the econonmic consequences of network externalities - as …

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Modeling the Evolution of Markets with Indirect Network Externalities: An Application to Digital Television

Gupta, Sachin; Jain, Dipak C.; Sawhney, Mohanbir S. - In: Marketing Science 18 (1999) 3, pp. 396-416

complementary software products, is called an network externality. Indirect network externalities create a two-way contingency … between the actions of hardware manufacturers and the actions of software providers. Indirect network externalities are … model for the evolution of markets with indirect network externalities. The key feature of our framework is to model the …

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Revisiting Intellectual Property Policy: Information Economics for the Information Age

DEMPSEY, GILLIAN - In: Prometheus 17 (1999) 1, pp. 33-40

market effects of network externalities, will greatly assist policy-makers. …

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Investment Dynamics in Markets with Endogenous Demand

Vettas, Nikolaos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

In several interesting markets, demand is an increasing function of past sales because of learning, network … externalities or fashion. This paper examines entry into such markets. The two key elements of the model are that firms are …

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Herd Effects and Migration

Epstein, Gil S; Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

decisions, since people are led to discount their private information. We also compare herd effects with the network-externalities …

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Information Technology and Organization Design: Locating Decisions and Information

Nault, Barrie R. - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 10, pp. 1321-1335

We study the impact of information technology (IT) on the profitability of individual organization designs and on the relative profitability of different organization designs. We develop models where organization design is defined by the location of investment decision authority. We consider...

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Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter

Economides, Nicholas - EconWPA - 1997

network externality and will invite entry. In markets with very strong network externalities, the leader pays a subsidy to the …We discuss the incentive of an exclusive holder of a technology to share it with competitors in a market with network … externalities. We assume that high expected sales increase the willingness to pay for the good. This is named the "network effect …

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R&D incentives in compatible networks

Kristiansen, Eirik; Thum, Marcel - In: Journal of Economics 65 (1997) 1, pp. 55-78

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