This paper considers the incentives of firms to conform to an exogenous international product standard. Product standardization enables traditional, price-based international competition. But the existence of redesign costs or network effects creates market frictions that diminish the incentive...

This paper develops a microeconomic model-based approach to forecast national information and communications technology expenditure that is helpful when only very short time-series are available. The model specification incorporates parameters for network effects and national e-readiness....

For some, Web 2.0 is a "simple" evolution of the current web; for others, Web 2.0 is a real revolution. Web 2.0 is, in fact, a "revolutionary evolution." Technically speaking, Web 2.0 is a "simple" evolution because it is not a technical "breakthrough," as it is essentially based on an aggregation...

Since the USA Telecommunications Act of 1996, the regulatory frameworks, have led to the requirement of different policy practices in many countries across the world in order to establish sustainable competition in whole telecommunication markets. These regulatory reforms are the privatization...

This study examines methods for analyzing and forecasting the retention of active subscribers in the telecommunications industry using various criteria for subscriber activity. The results demonstrate that the retention dynamics of an active subscriber base can be effectively modeled using a...

This study examines methods for analyzing and forecasting the retention of active subscribers in the telecommunications industry using various criteria for subscriber activity. The results demonstrate that the retention dynamics of an active subscriber base can be effectively modeled using a...

This study examines methods for analyzing and forecasting the retention of active subscribers in the telecommunications industry using various criteria for subscriber activity. The results demonstrate that the retention dynamics of an active subscriber base can be effectively modeled using a...

This study examines methods for analyzing and forecasting the retention of active subscribers in the telecommunications industry using various criteria for subscriber activity. The results demonstrate that the retention dynamics of an active subscriber base can be effectively modeled using a...

This paper develops a simple demand model with network externalities which allow us to identify the shape of the network externalities function in the mobile telephone market and to estimate the critical mass. If the mobile telephone network exhibits positive network externalities, we expect...