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Network externalities, competition, and compatibility

Michael L. Katz
- 01 Jan 1985 - 
- Vol. 75, Iss: 3, pp 424-440
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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.

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Innovation in Large Technical Systems: The Case of Telecommunications

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the development of the telecommunications network as a large technical system, dealing with the ways in which innovation is behind the rate and direction of system growth and argued that an explanation of innovation in large technical systems'has to account for the economic drive to realize economies of scale and scope.
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The Impact of Membership in Competing Alliance Constellations: Evidence on the Operational Performance of Global Airlines

TL;DR: This paper empirically evaluates the proposition that membership in airline constellations allows carriers to capture externalities from other firms in the form of direct or indirect traffic flow, thereby enhancing their operational performance.
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Drivers of mobile payment acceptance: The impact of network externalities

TL;DR: Results indicated that while the traditional acceptance drivers still impact customers’ willingness to adopt mobile payment, network externalities was the most influential driver of mobile payment acceptance and results failed to support the influence of effort expectancy.
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Social Influence and Entrepreneurship: The Effect of University Peers on Entrepreneurial Entry

TL;DR: These findings provide evidence that the effect of university peers arises as a result of social influence rather than the institutional impact of universities, and strengthen evidence for the role of contextual influences in shaping entrepreneurial entry.
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Tax Analysis in an Oligopoly Model

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.