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We analyze how network effects affect competition in the nascent cryptocurrency market. We do so by examining the … changes over time in exchange rate data among cryptocurrencies. Specifically, we look at two aspects: (1) competition among … different currencies, and (2) competition among exchanges where those currencies are traded. Our data suggest that the winner …
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substantive liability standards for dominant firms in US antitrust law and in EC Competition law. The competition law remedies … roots of the competition law violation identified in the liability decision and others who advance the view that the … developing such a remedy in the future are briefly discussed before more emphasis is put on alternative remedies (competition and …
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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...
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We discuss and compare the remedies in the two cases antitrust cases of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft. The first EU case alleged (i) that Microsoft illegally bundled the Windows Media Player (WMP) with Windows; and (ii) that Microsoft did not provide adequate documentation that would...
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. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through business model reconfigurations. We consider … closed" in response to competition from an outside open source project; (ii) firms are more likely to open substitute, rather …
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The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process: open source software development is done by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data...
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technological race against a competitor. I find that the outside option to become OS might soften competition on innovation since …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 …
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We examine the geography of early stage entrepreneurial finance in the context of an internet marketplace for funding new musical artist-entrepreneurs. A large body of research documents that investors in early-stage projects are disproportionately co-located with the entrepreneur. Theory...
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Online applications and services automate communications and transactions between firms and consumers, promising large efficiency gains. However, consumers have been slow to use these online technologies intensively, despite widespread adoption of the internet. Customers frequently undergo a...
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Crowdfunding is a fast emerging internet fundraising mechanism for soliciting capital from the crowd to support entrepreneurial ventures. This paper empirically investigates the dynamics of investors’ backing behaviors in the presence of network externalities and a finite time window. The...
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