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Platform interconnection and quality incentives
Salim, Claudia - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Freie Universität … - 2008
invest in Platform quality. We find that interconnection is aa means to reduce externalities one side exerts on the other. It … changes the mode of competition for subscribers and resultsin higher subscription prices. Further, even though interconnection … quality costs it will lead to asymmetric networks. Therefore, interconnection without coordinated investment activities is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533508
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Platform interconnection and quality incentives
Salim, Claudia - 2008
invest in Platform quality. We find that interconnection is aa means to reduce externalities one side exerts on the other. It … changes the mode of competition for subscribers and resultsin higher subscription prices. Further, even though interconnection … quality costs it will lead to asymmetric networks. Therefore, interconnection without coordinated investment activities is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003797957
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Platform Standards, Collusion and Quality Incentives
Salim, Claudia - 2010
We present the idea that quality cooperation and standardisation might raise network providers' incentives for product differentiation. As a result, the equilibrium outcome may be characterised by voluntary standardisation and maximum quality differentiation: This situation arises, if platforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270111
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Platform standards, collusion and quality incentives
Salim, Claudia - 2009
This paper examines how quality incentives are related to the interoperability of competing platforms. Platforms choose whether to operate standardised or exclusively, prior to quality and subsequent price competition. We find that platforms choose a common standard if they can coordinate their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848849
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Two-sided markets with negative externalities
Reisinger, Markus - 2004
This paper analyses a two-sided market in which two platforms compete against each other. One side, the advertisers, exerts a negative externality on the ther side, the users. It is shown that if platforms can charge advertisers only, a higher degree of competition for users can lead to higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440462
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Compatibility and Proprietary Standards : The Impact of Conversion Technologies in IT Markets with Network Effects
Liu, Charles Z.; Gal-Or, Esther; Kemerer, Chris F.; … - 2014
In markets that exhibit network effects, the presence of digital conversion technologies provides an alternative mechanism to achieve compatibility. This study examines the impact of conversion technologies on market equilibrium in the context of sequential duopoly competition and proprietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051431
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Complementary Platforms
Reynaerts, Jo; Van Cayseele, Patrick - 2007
We introduce an analytical framework close to the canonical model of platfirm competition investigated by Rochet and Tirole (2006) to study pricing decisions in two-sided markets when two or more platfirms are needed simultaneously for the successful completion of a transaction. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313416
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Complementary platforms
CAYSEELE, Patrick VAN; REYNAERTS, Jo - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2007
We introduce an analytical framework close to the canonical model of platform competition investigated by Rochet and Tirole (2006) to study pricing decisions in two-sided markets when two or more platforms are needed simultaneously for the successful completion of a transaction. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516205
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Complementary Platforms
Reynaerts, Jo; Cayseele, Patrick Van - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2007
We introduce an analytical framework close to the canonical model of platform competition investigated by Rochet and Tirole (2006) to study pricing decisions in two-sided markets when two or more platforms are needed simultaneously for the successful completion of a transaction. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449579
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Two-Sided Markets with Negative Externalities
Reisinger, Markus - 2004
This paper analyses a two-sided market in which two platforms compete against each other. One side, the advertisers, exerts a negative externality on the ther side, the users. It is shown that if platforms can charge advertisers only, a higher degree of competition for users can lead to higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427391