Software platforms are a critical component of the computer systems, underpinning leading-edge products ranging from third-generation mobile phones to video games. After describing some key economic features of computer systems and software platforms, the paper presents case studies of personal...

Problem definition: We examine a dynamic assignment problem faced by a large Wireless Service Provider (WSP) that is a Fortune 100 company. This company manages two warranties: (i) a customer warranty that WSP offers its customers, and (ii) an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) warranty that...

This book combines economic studies of innovation systems with studies of mediatisation, media convergence, trans- and cross-media and with other approaches within media and culture studies. It elaborates on a new concept, cross-innovation, referring to co-innovation and convergence processes...

"A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose home electronics empire changed the world even as it turned out to be one of the biggest business scams of all time Back in the fall of 2016 we heard the news about the passing of Eddie Antar,...

Recently, the consumer virtual reality(VR) industry has been established with the introduction of VR head-mount displays(HMDs) and many have expected VR to become the next generation platform. Despite the circumstances, the adoption of VR HMDs is slower than expected. To comprehend this matter,...

Das übergeordnete Ziel der Studie ist die Ermittlung von Energie- und Ressourceneinspar-potenzialen in der Nutzungsphase der Unterhaltungselektronik. Die Konsumentenbefragung hat gezeigt, dass sich in sämtlichen Teilgruppen der Gesellschaft die Nutzung von Unterhaltungselektronik auf einem...

In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX...

Senator Orrin Hatch's introduction of the "Induce Act" in the summer of 2004 transformed the ongoing debate over the legality, morality and economics of peer-to-peer file sharing into a debate over Sony v. Universal Studios. Fans of the Sony decision insist that the legal rule announced in the...

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. We exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated as exogenous in comparable...

We analyze the interaction between market structure and market performance and how it varies over the product cycle. To account for the potential endogeneity in this relation, we use an instrumental variable approach. We combine data from the largest Austrian online market for price comparisons...

Indirect network effects are of prime interest to marketers because they affect the growth and takeoff of software availability for, and hardware sales of, a new product. While prior work on indirect network effects in the economics and marketing literature is valuable, these literatures show...

When manufacturers introduce a new product to the market, downstream retail partners are faced with inherent trade-offs. Retail sales personnel has to support the new product's introduction with substantial sales efforts, but also sell the existing products in stock, before storage and...

Immer mehr Menschen gehen beim Surfen im World Wide Web auf Einkaufstour. Dabei geben Preisvergleichsseiten oftmals hilfreiche Tipps, wo das gesuchte Produkt am günstigsten zu haben ist. Dass sich ein Vergleich lohnt, zeigt eine Studie des Zentrums für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)...

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

We investigate the causal effect of market structure on market performance in the consumer electronics. We combine data from Austria's largest online site for price comparisons with retail data on wholesale prices provided by a major hardware producer for consumer electronics. We observe input...

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...

We investigate the effect of market structure on market performance in the market for consumer electronics. This research is novel, because we exploit product life cycle information to build an instrumental variable for the number of firms in a market, a variable which hitherto had to be treated...

Using the uniform powerful unbiased test, we observed the sales distribution of consumer electronics in Japan on a daily basis and report that it follows both a longnormal distribution and a power-law distribution and depends on the state of the market. We show that these switches occur quite...

Technological change is transforming media industries. Digitization lowers the cost of recording, storage, reproduction and distribution, while computer-based editing facilitates higher quality and special effects. With electronic distribution, a vast range of content can be made available to...

Until recently the Consumer Price Index consisted solely of "matched model" component indexes. The latter are constructed by BLS personnel who visit stores and compare prices of goods with the same set of characteristics over successive periods. This procedure is subject to a selection bias....

Until recently the Consumer Price Index consisted solely of quot;matched modelquot; component indexes. The latter are constructed by BLS personnel who visit stores and compare prices of goods with the same set of characteristics over successive periods. This procedure is subject to a selection...