We analyze trade-offs in the organization of public safety networks when network assets are distributed across districts and a district values network assets in its own and other districts. Comparing centralized, decentralized, and mixed organization forms, we capture two critical properties:...

Many software firms offer a fully functional version of their products free of charge, for a limited trial time, to ease consumers’ uncertainty about the functionalities of their products and to help the diffusion of their new software. This paper examines the tradeoff between the effects of...