dominates in network growth. We find that decreasing content consumption costs (perhaps by changing site design or via search …

network externalities between consumers. In the case of a usage fee, I provide conditions under which the steady state (SS) is … consumers whose price-elasticity of demand is large relative to their valuation for network externalities. Finally, we show how … the network's value. …

selling still boosts up the seller's profit. Embedding a physical network with arbitrary payoff externality among customers …

This paper provides a thorough analysis of oligopolistic markets with positive demand-side network externalities and …'s rivals' total output as well as in the expected network size. This leads to a generalized equilibrium existence treatment …-firm profits need not be monotonic in the number of competitors, we revisit the concept of free entry equilibrium for network …

Positive network externalities can arise when consumers benefit from the consumption of compatible products by other …

Ballester, Calvo-Armengol, and Zenou (2006, Econometrica, 74/5, pp. 1403-17) show that in a network game with local … we search for the key group in such network games, whose members are, in general, different from the players with the …