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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 … the technological leader prefers to reduce his innovation investment to avoid the OS switch of the follower. Therefore …, although the switch to OS could generate higher investment levels ex-post it might generate lower investment ex-ante. In this …

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Excessive(?) Entry of National Telecom Networks, 1990-2001

Hogendorn, Christiaan - NET Institute - 2003

We document entry and capacity expansion in US long-distance fiber-optic networks before and during the “telecom boom.” We disentangle the many swaps and leases between networks in order to measure owned route miles versus route miles shared with other carriers. Entry appears much more...

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Usage and Diffusion of Cellular Telephony, 1998-2004

Grajek, Michal; Kretschmer, Tobias - NET Institute - 2006

In this paper, we study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. We address two specific questions: First, does information about usage intensity over time allow us to draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion?...

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Network Effects in Alternative Fuel Adoption: Empirical Analysis of the Market for Ethanol

Shriver, Scott K. - NET Institute - 2010

This paper investigates the importance of network effects in the demand for ethanol-compatible vehicles and the supply of ethanol fuel retailers. An indirect network effect, or positive feedback loop, arises in this context due to spatially-dependent complementarities in the availability of...

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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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Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs

Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2010

This paper investigates how switching costs affect product compatibility and market dynamics in network industries. A reduction in the switching cost makes the firms' products more attractive relative to the outside good, which diminishes the market expansion benefit of making products...

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Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion in Two-Sided Markets

Bar-Gill, Sagit - NET Institute - 2013

Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they are endogenously determined. We model an expansion...

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Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market

Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - NET Institute - 2014

We consider a structural model of demand and supply where firms endogenously offer vertically differentiated products and exercise second-degree price discrimination. We apply this model to the smartphone industry and quantify the welfare effects of price discrimination and competition. We use...

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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS

Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003

We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between 1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, when incumbents faced increased competition from personal communications services (PCS) firms....

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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2005

See http://www.netinst.org/NET_Working_Papers.html #46

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