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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Llanes, Gaston - NET Institute - 2009

We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical price competition, we allow firms to compete through business model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where...

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Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews

Archak, Nikolay; Ghose, Anindya; Ipeirotis, Panagiotis G. - NET Institute - 2007

The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer-generated product reviews have become a valuable source of information for customers, who read the reviews and decide whether to buy the product based on the information...

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Vertical Integration, Exclusivity and Game Sales Performance in the US Video Game Industry

Gil, Ricard; Warzynski, Frédèric - NET Institute - 2010

integrated games from those that are just exclusive to a platform. First, we show that vertically integrated games produce higher …

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Optimal Cartel Prices in Two-Sided Markets Access

Boffa, Federico; Filistrucchi, Lapo - NET Institute - 2014

We study optimal cartel prices in a two-sided market. We present a simple model showing that prices above the two-sided monopoly price may prevail on one side of a two-sided market as a means to enhance the sustainability of the cartel. We prove that in such a case a higher benefit from the...

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An Empirical Analysis of Development Processes for Anticipatory Standards

Mitra, Prasenjit; Purao, Sandeep; Bagby, John W.; … - NET Institute - 2005

the crafting of standards that include a substantial design component (SSDC), or “anticipatory” standards. SSDC require …-setting processes as a complex interplay among three forces: sense-making, design, and negotiation (DSN). The DSN model provides the …

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Inter-generational Transitions In Technological Ecosystems: The Case Of Mobile Telephony

Ansari, Shahzad; Garud, Raghu - NET Institute - 2007

an ecosystem that is characterized by both momentum and inertia. Applying this framework to study the mobile … communications ecosystem, we found that the transition between 2G to 3G wireless was far from sequential. Different parts of the … ecosystem evolved at different rates exerting both inertia and momentum with “collateral technologies” playing an important role …

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Assessing Value in Product Networks

OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Libai, Barak - NET Institute - 2011

Traditionally, the value of a product has been assessed according to the direct revenues the product creates. However, products do not exist in isolation but rather influence one another's sales. Such influence is especially evident in eCommerce environments, where products are often presented...

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The Effect of Electronic Commerce on Geographic Trade and Price Variance in a Business-to-Business Market

Overby, Eric; Forman, Chris - NET Institute - 2011

Imbalances in supply and demand often cause the price for the same good to vary across geographic locations. Economic theory suggests that if the price differential is greater than the cost of transporting the good between locations, then buyers will shift demand from high-price locations to...

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Is Oprah Contagious? Identifying Demand Spillovers in Product Networks

Carmi, Eyal; OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2010

We study the online contagion of exogenous demand shocks generated by book reviews featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show and published in the New York Times, through the co-purchase recommendation network on Amazon.com. These exogenous events may ripple through and affect the demand for a...

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An Empirical Analysis of Search Engine Advertising: Sponsored Search and Cross-Selling in Electronic Markets

Ghose, Anindya; Yang, Sha - NET Institute - 2007

The phenomenon of sponsored search advertising where advertisers pay a fee to Internet search engines to be displayed alongside organic (non-sponsored) web search results is gaining ground as the largest source of revenues for search engines. Using a unique panel dataset of several hundred...

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