this chapter has grasped some essential aspects of the network-and-standard dynamic but not others. This chapter juxtaposes …

2009 is positively influenced by international network effects. Direct and indirect network effects are a result of the … countries' networks by using international roaming services or imported handsets. We define international network effects as the … between the home country and the partner countries.) To measure international network effects, we estimate a series of …

The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market … characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market … network operators and thereby gain a dominant position when network externalities are significant. The paper comes to the …

Under network effects, we analyze when a firm with the largest market share of installed-base customers prefers … incompatibility with smaller rivals that are themselves compatible. With incompatibility, consumers realize that intra-network … competition makes the rivals' network more aggressive than a single-firm network in adding customers. Consequently, under …