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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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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities and Consumer Expectations
Sjaak Hurkens,Ángel L. López +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities and show that consumers' expectations are assumed passive but required to be fulfilled in equilibrium (as defined by Katz and Shapiro, AER 1985).
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Network effects, market structure and industry performance ✩
Rabah Amir,Natalia Lazzati +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analyzes oligopolistic markets with network externalities and proves the existence of non-trivial fulfilled-expectations equilibrium by exploiting a minimal complementarity structure on the model primitives that allows for pure network goods.
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When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it, based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects.
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Factors for winning format battles: A comparative case study
TL;DR: A new framework of factors that impact the outcome of format battles between competing interface formats is proposed, which appears to be more complete than earlier frameworks, and therefore provides a better understanding of interface format battles.
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Network externalities and the Coase conjecture
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of market structure on the development of a network in a dynamic model with rational expectations is examined in a model of durable good production in the presence of network externalities.
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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.