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Network externalities, competition, and compatibility
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This article is published in The American Economic Review.The article was published on 1985-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6100 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Network economics.read more
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Global democracy: in the beginning
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Setting Compatibility Standards: Cooperation or Collusion?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the process by which firms cooperate to establish product compatibility and interface standards, and study the impact such standards have on market competition, and offer some general suggestions for the proper antitrust treatment of cooperation to set standards, including the use of cross-licenses and patent pools.
Using e-cash in the New Economy: An economic analysis of micro payments systems
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Determinants of early conformance with information security policies
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The role of complementary products on platform adoption : Evidence from the video console market
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the influence of complementary product portfolios on the adoption of platforms by individuals and found that decisions on complementary products act as strategic drivers of adoption in platform-based markets.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the conjectural variations model of oligopoly to analyze the way in which the incidence of a tax depends upon the pattern of firm interaction and show that the errors that arise in excess burden calculations when incorrect assumptions on market structure are made.
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Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the conjectural variations model of oligopoly to analyze the way in which the incidence of a tax depends on the pattern of firm interaction and show that the errors that can arise in excess burden calculations when incorrect assumptions on market structure are made.