This paper analyzes the effects of standards on U.K. trade performance. The results suggest that U.K. strength in standards improves the U.K. trade balance but can also act to make the U.K. market more open. The results also contradict two common views of the effects of standards: first, that...

This paper presents a method of identifying asymmetric competitor networks between different products using data on the price and characteristics of these different products. The technique is applied to data on the spreadsheet software market and it suggests that asymmetric competitor linkages...

Recent work in the area of competing technologies and increasing returns has largely been concerned with the effectiveness of the market in delivering optimal outcomes. The existence of inefficient market outcomes suggests that there might be a place for intervention in the technology choice...

Theoretical literature on the economics of technology has emphasized the effects on technological trajectories of positive feedbacks. In a competition among technologies that all perform a similar function, the presence of increasing returns to adoptions can force all but one technology from the...