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When should a firm open its source code : a strategic analysis

Kort, Peter M.; Zaccour, Georges - In: Production and operations management : an international … 20 (2011) 6, pp. 877-888

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On platforms, incomplete contracts, and open source software

Niedermayer, Andras - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 31 (2013) 6, pp. 714-722

We analyze investment incentives for a firm A owning a software platform and an application and a firm B deciding …

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Growth Effects of Non-Proprietary Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We study and endogenous growth model where a profit-motivated R&D sector coexists with the introduction of free blueprints invented by philanthropists. These goods are priced at marginal cost, contrary to proprietary ones, which are produced by a monopoly owned by the inventor. We show that...

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On Platforms, Incomplete Contracts, and Open Source Software

Niedermayer, Andras - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2007

We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform … against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights … firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software. …

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Product Differentiation and Entry Timing in a Continuous Time Spatial Competition Model

Ebina, Takeshi; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shimizu, Daisuke - 2014

We extend the well-known spatial competition model (d'Aspremont et al., 1979) to a continuous time model in which two firms compete in each instance. Our focus is on the entry timing decisions of firms and their optimal locations. We demonstrate that the leader has an incentive to locate closer...

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Product differentiation and entry timing in a continuous time spatial competition model

Ebina, Takeshi; Matsushima, Noriaki; Shimizu, Daisuke - 2014

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Sequential Product Positioning and Entry Timing under Differential Costs in a Continuous-Time Model

Ebina, Takeshi - 2020

We investigate the product positioning decisions of two firms with differential marginal production costs, which enter a market sequentially under a continuous-time duopoly competition. We show that, if the follower firm optimally chooses its entry timing, the leader firm strategically positions...

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Antitrust Time Travel : Entry & Potential Competition

Sullivan, Sean; Su, Henry - 2022

Entry analysis and potential competition doctrine have much in common. Both draw from predictions about future entry. Both require difficult assessments of entry barriers and incentives. Both are currently a doctrinal mess. This Article offers a clarifying perspective. Instead of separating...

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Conditions for Efficient Entry and Clustering

Wait, Andrew; Smirnov, Vladimir - 2021

We outline the conditions for efficient entry order and clustering in a triopoly preemption game in which firms differ in their sunk costs of entry. The critical factor turns out to be how symmetric the potential entrants are. If the cost asymmetry between the firms is sufficiently large, entry...

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An Integrated Model of Predation and Collusion

Coloma, German - 2004

We present a two-firm model of predation under complete information, based on different discount factors, and integrate it with a model of collusion. Competition, collusion and predation are seen as alternative strategies. The basic conclusions are that there is predation when one firm has a...

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