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Network Effects in Alternative Fuel Adoption: Empirical Analysis of the Market for Ethanol
Shriver, Scott K. - NET Institute - 2010
This paper investigates the importance of network effects in the demand for ethanol-compatible vehicles and the supply … of ethanol fuel retailers. An indirect network effect, or positive feedback loop, arises in this context due to spatially …-dependent complementarities in the availability of ethanol fuel and the installed base of ethanol-compatible vehicles. Marketers and social …
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Aggregators and the News Industry: Charging for Access to Content
Rutt, James - NET Institute - 2011
The Internet has drastically altered the nature of competition in the news industry. This article develops a model of price and quality competition between firms in the online news industry. In equilibrium, firms randomise in their pricing strategies and this generates the cross- sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352208
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e-Book Platform Competition in the Presence of Two-Sided Network Externalities
Jiang, Yabing - NET Institute - 2012
The success of the Kindle e-book platform and the increased popularity of e-books among members of the reading community have attracted extensive interest in the high-tech industry. New platform providers are jumping in the market to compete for device and e-book sales. In this paper, we model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905457
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Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs
Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2010
This paper investigates how switching costs affect product compatibility and market dynamics in network industries. A reduction in the switching cost makes the firms' products more attractive relative to the outside good, which diminishes the market expansion benefit of making products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905466
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Game of Platforms: Strategic Expansion in Two-Sided Markets
Bar-Gill, Sagit - NET Institute - 2013
Online platforms, such as Google, Facebook, or Amazon, are constantly expanding their activities, while increasing the overlap in their service offering. In this paper, we study the scope and overlap of online platforms' activities, when they are endogenously determined. We model an expansion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905475
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Competition, Product Proliferation and Welfare: A Study of the U.S. Smartphone Market
Fan, Ying; Yang, Chenyu - NET Institute - 2014
We consider a structural model of demand and supply where firms endogenously offer vertically differentiated products and exercise second-degree price discrimination. We apply this model to the smartphone industry and quantify the welfare effects of price discrimination and competition. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933639
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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS
Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003
We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between 1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, when incumbents faced increased competition from personal communications services (PCS) firms....
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Excessive(?) Entry of National Telecom Networks, 1990-2001
Hogendorn, Christiaan - NET Institute - 2003
We document entry and capacity expansion in US long-distance fiber-optic networks before and during the “telecom boom.” We disentangle the many swaps and leases between networks in order to measure owned route miles versus route miles shared with other carriers. Entry appears much more...
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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2005
See http://www.netinst.org/NET_Working_Papers.html #46
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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service,
Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian; Seim, Katja - NET Institute - 2007
Local telecommunications competition was an important goal of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September 1999 to March 2003. We address the prevalence of...
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