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Introduction of Software Products and Services Through "Public" Beta Launches

Mehra, Amit; Shrimali, Gireesh - NET Institute - 2008

Public “Beta” launches have become a preferred route of entry into the markets for new software products and web site based services. While beta testing of novel products is nothing new, typically such tests were done by experts within firm boundaries. What makes public beta testing so...

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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2011

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price...

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Estimating a Model of Strategic Store-Network Choice

Nishida, Mitsukuni - NET Institute - 2008

to perform two counterfactual analyses. First, I consider a hypothetical merger of two chains and find that the merger …

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Who thinks about the competition? Managerial ability and strategic entry in US local telephone markets

Goldfarb, Avi; Xiao, Mo - NET Institute - 2008

This paper examines how manager and firm characteristics relate to entry decisions in US local telephone markets. To do so, it develops a structural econometric model that allows managers to be heterogeneous in their ability to correctly conjecture competitor behavior. The model adapts Camerer,...

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Assessing the Value of Network Security Technologies: The Impact of Configuration and Interaction on Value

Cavusoglu, Huseyin; Cavusoglu, Hasan - NET Institute - 2007

Proper configuration of security technologies is critical to balance the access and protection requirements of information. The common practice of using a layered security architecture that has multiple technologies amplifies the need for proper configuration because the configuration decision...

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Better Together? Retail Chain Performance Dynamics in Store Expansion Before and After Mergers

Nishida, Mitsukuni; Yang, Nathan - NET Institute - 2014

diffusion across Japanese prefectures from 1982 to 2012, whereby an actual merger between two chains takes place in 2001. Given … performance dynamics evolve before and after the merger. In particular, we demonstrate that the performance dynamics for the … merged entity do not improve following the merger. …

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Two-Sided Platform Competition in the Online Daily Deals Promotion Market

Kim, Byung-Cheol; Jeongsik "Jay" Lee; Park, Hyunwoo - NET Institute - 2012

We empirically investigate the platform competition in the online daily deals promotion market that is characterized by intense rivalry between two leading promotion sites, Groupon and LivingSocial, that broker between merchants and consumers. We find that deals offered through Groupon, the...

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Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews

Archak, Nikolay; Ghose, Anindya; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G. - NET Institute - 2007

The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer-generated product reviews have become a valuable source of information for customers, who read the reviews and decide whether to buy the product based on the information...

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Linux vs. Windows: A comparison of application and platform innovation incentives for open source and proprietary software platforms

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

The paper analyzes and compares the investment incentives of platform and application developers for Linux and Windows. We find that the level of investment in applications is larger when the operating system is open source rather than proprietary. The comparison of the levels of investment in...

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Ad-sponsored Business Models and Compatibility Incentives of Social Networks

Zhu, Feng - NET Institute - 2008

This paper examines social networks' incentives to establish compatibility under fee and ad-sponsored business models. I analyze the competition between two social networks and show that compatibility is only possible when the two networks are ad-sponsored. I also find that even when both...

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