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Software Innovation and the Open Source threat
Lambardi, German - NET Institute - 2009
In this paper I study how innovation investment in a software duopoly is affected by the fact that one of the firms is … find that a PS duopoly might generate more innovation than a mixed duopoly if the initial technological gap between firms … is small. However if this gap is large, a PS duopoly generates less innovation than a mixed duopoly. I then extend the …
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Tarantino, Emanuele - NET Institute - 2011
We present a model of industry standard setting with two-sided asymmetric information about the existence of intellectual property. We provide an equilibrium analysis of (a) firms' incentives to communicate ideas for improvements of an industry standard, and (b) firms' decisions to disclose the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364718
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How Do Open Standards Influence Inventive Activity? Evidence from the IETF
Wen, Wen; Forman, Chris; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka - NET Institute - 2014
We examine how standardization in the information and communication technologies affects the inventive activities of firms that do not contribute standards but potentially produce to the standards. In the context of the Internet Engineering Task Force, we find that as a technological area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936551
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A Model of Product Design and Information Disclosure Investments
Markopoulos, Panos; Hosanagar, Kartik - NET Institute - 2013
As online information availability for products and services is increasing and as buyers engage in more online search prior to purchase decisions, it is becoming more important for firms to know when to invest to reduce buyer uncertainty. This article argues that today's firms should view...
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Competition in Prices and Service Level Guarantees
Johari, Ramesh; Weintraub, Gabriel - NET Institute - 2007
In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where providers compete to deliver a service to congestion-sensitive consumers. The SLG is a contractual obligation on the part of the service provider: regardless of how many customers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184809
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Information Aggregation and Innovation in Market Design
Ollar, Mariann; Rostek, Marzena - NET Institute - 2011
exchanged good are determined by fundamental (common) shocks. At the same time, design innovation in contemporaneous markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905451
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Online Peer-to-peer Communities: An Empirical Investigation of a Music Sharing Network as a Dynamic Two-sided Network
Gu, Bin; Huang, Yun; Duan, Wenjing; Whinston, Andrew B. - NET Institute - 2007
Online peer-to-peer communities and online social networks have become increasingly popular. In particular, the recent boost of online peer-to-peer communities leads to exponential growth in sharing of user-contributed content which have brought profound changes to business and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622705
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Participation in a Platform Ecosystem: Appropriability, Competition, and Access to the Installed Base
Huang, Peng; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Forman, Chris; Wu, D.J. - NET Institute - 2009
industries is positively associated with the propensity to partner. The results highlight the role of innovation appropriation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008479193
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Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks
Dellarocas, Chrysanthos; Katona, Zsolt; Rand, William - NET Institute - 2010
A key property of the World Wide Web is the possibility for firms to place virtually costless links to third-party content as a substitute or complement to their own content. This ability to hyperlink has enabled new types of players, such as search engines and content aggregators, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672214
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Cross-Licensing and Competition
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine - NET Institute - 2013
We study bilateral cross-licensing agreements among N( 2) firms that engage in competition after the licensing phase. It is shown that the most collusive cross-licensing royalty, i.e. the one that allows the industry to achieve the monopoly profit, is sustainable as the outcome of bilaterally...
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