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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry
Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005
Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm, that is, the pricing strategy towards the direct users of the platform as well as towards firms offering...
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Private Information in Markets: A Market Design Perspective
Rostek, Marzena; Yoon, Ji Hee - NET Institute - 2013
This paper studies the impact of heterogeneity in interdependence of trader values on price inference and welfare. A model of double auction with quasilinear-quadratic utilities is introduced that allows for arbitrary Gaussian information structures. With heterogeneous interdependence, some...
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Imperfect Platform Competition: A General Framework
White, Alexander; Weyl, E. Glen - NET Institute - 2010
oligopoly without the unrealistic restrictions typically imposed for tractability and to demonstrate that the fundamental …
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Patent Licensing Networks
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine - NET Institute - 2014
This paper investigates the patent licensing networks formed by competing firms. Assuming that licensing agreements can … of independent patents, we fully characterize the bilaterally efficient networks and find that when the cost reduction … efficient one. We also show that the bilaterally efficient networks can be sustained as subgame-perfect Nash equilibria with …
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Interconnecting Differentiated Networks
Alexandrov, Alexei - NET Institute - 2008
I examine interconnection decisions of differentiated firms. I find that previous results that firms never interconnect enough do not hold. In a Hotelling model consumers may suffer from interconnection, and firms may interconnect when it is not socially optimal. The firms interconnect too much...
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A Steady State Approach to a Network Externality Market With Switching Costs
Keller, Timothy; Miller, David; Xiahua (Anny) Wei - NET Institute - 2010
We study duopoly pricing in the market for mobile phone service, which features network externalities, switching costs, and consumer heterogeneity. We introduce a steady state approach that enables a tractable analysis without endgame effects. The model can generate a variety of testable...
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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities
Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012
The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...
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News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Esfahani, Nikrooz Nasr - NET Institute - 2012
In this paper, we study how the presence of a news aggregator affects competition among (horizontally differentiated) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality on each issue. Our model provides a micro...
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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform
Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013
We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers’ products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the...
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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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