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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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Opening Platforms: When, How and Why?
TL;DR: Factors that motivate decisions to open or close mature platforms are reviewed, including end users and complementors, and platform provider and sponsor levels.
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Competition Between Networks: A Study of the Market for Yellow Pages
TL;DR: In this article, the importance of network effects in the market for Yellow Pages was estimated and it was shown that internalizing network effects would significantly increase the surplus of a more competitive market is preferable.
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Institutional Entrepreneurship A Coasian Perspective
TL;DR: This article argued that the prevailing institutional structures of the economic system produce a particular spectrum of entrepreneurial activity and argued that these institutions themselves are not the primary drivers of entrepreneurship, but rather the agents themselves.
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Network effects and competition: an empirical analysis of the home video game industry
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically study the impact of a unit increase in network size on demand in the 16-bit home video game industry and find strong evidence that network effects are asymmetric between the competitors.
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Informational cascades and software adoption on the internet: an empirical investigation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors empirically examine informational cascades in the context of online software adoption and find that users' choices of software products exhibit distinct jumps and drops with changes in download ranking.
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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.