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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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Interaction of Public and Private Standards in the Food Chain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an exploratory examination of the ways in which public and private food quality standards interact with each other in modern food systems and discuss a number of issues arising from the contiguous development of public quality standards.
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Network externalities and government restrictions on satellite broadcasting of key sporting events.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that transmission on BSkyB would reduce consumer surplus due to network externalities, and that the best arrangement would combine terrestrial broadcasting of the main event with subscription broadcasting of aspects that appeal only to minority tastes.
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Competitive pricing strategies in social networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study pricing strategies of competing firms selling heterogeneous products to consumers and determine the optimal network structure and compare uniform pricing and discriminatory pricing from the perspectives of firms and consumers.
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Network externalities and long-run market shares
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study a dynamic duopoly model with network externalities and compare the market outcome to a planner, showing that the potential inefficiency is non-monotonic in the strength of the network effect, being most likely for intermediate levels.
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What makes MOOC users persist in completing MOOCs? A perspective from network externalities and human factors
Bo Li,Xinghua Wang,Seng Chee Tan +2 more
TL;DR: The findings indicate that users' persistence in completing MOOCs was a function of network benefit, user preference, and motivation to achieve, and the duration of MOOC usage made a significant difference in the effect of network externalities.
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Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model
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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.