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Sequential selling and information dissemination in the presence of network effects
Zhou, Junjie; Chen, Ying-Ju - NET Institute - 2014
' intrinsic signaling incentives and positive feedback effects. Anticipating this, the seller commits to provide price discounts …
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An Empirical Study of Online Software Outsourcing: Signals under Different Contract Regimes
Lin, Mingfeng; Viswanathan, Siva; Agarwal, Ritu - NET Institute - 2010
reputation, certification, and language characteristics on the chances of winning outsourcing contracts. Using a comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672213
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The Economics of Open-Access Journals
McCabe, Mark; Snyder, Christopher - NET Institute - 2004
Previous research modeled academic journals as platforms connecting authors with readers in a two-sided market. This research used the same basic framework also used to study telephony, credit cards, video game consoles, etc. In this paper, we focus on a key difference between the market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622701
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Digital Rights Management and the Pricing of Digital Products
Park, Yooki; Scotchmer, Suzanne - NET Institute - 2004
Digital products such as movies, music and computer software are protected both by self-help measures such as encryption and copy controls, and by the legal right to prevent copying. We explore how digital rights management and other technical protections a®ect the pricing of content, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005459405
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Migration Between Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary; CreÌmer, Jacques; Veiga, AndreÌ - NET Institute - 2013
We develop a model of dynamic platform formation under positive platform externalities. Users can switch between an incumbent and entrant platforms, switching opportunities arise stochastically and users can choose whether to accept or reject an opportunity to switch. For homogeneous users, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011141095
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Electronic Health Information Exchange, Competition, and Network Effects
Desai, Sunita - NET Institute - 2014
As in most industries, in health care, information is a competitive asset, and we expect that health care providers may have incentive to protect their information from competitors. This study aims to understand how this incentive to protect information may be a barrier to the development of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961657
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Customer Infomation Sharing: Strategic Incentives and New Implications
Kim, Byung-Cheol; Choi, Jay Pil - NET Institute - 2007
. Additionally, our analysis suggests a new role of middlemen as information aggregators. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585473
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A Model of Product Design and Information Disclosure Investments
Markopoulos, Panos; Hosanagar, Kartik - NET Institute - 2013
As online information availability for products and services is increasing and as buyers engage in more online search prior to purchase decisions, it is becoming more important for firms to know when to invest to reduce buyer uncertainty. This article argues that today's firms should view...
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The Appeal of Third-party Certifications: Information Unraveling in Natural Experiments
Lin, Mingfeng; Goes, Paulo - NET Institute - 2012
Despite the abundance of studies on consequences of certification, there is little empirical research on what motivates … unraveling” proposition, which predicts a “domino- effect” in sellers’ certification-seeking behavior when a certification … experiment was the introduction of certifications into the market, with a fee; and the second occurred when certification exams …
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Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information
Halaburda, Hanna; Yehezkel, Yaron - NET Institute - 2011
In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting...
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