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Cross-Licensing and Competition
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lefouili, Yassine - NET Institute - 2013
We study bilateral cross-licensing agreements among N( 2) firms that engage in competition after the licensing phase. It is shown that the most collusive cross-licensing royalty, i.e. the one that allows the industry to achieve the monopoly profit, is sustainable as the outcome of bilaterally...
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Participation in a Platform Ecosystem: Appropriability, Competition, and Access to the Installed Base
Huang, Peng; Ceccagnoli, Marco; Forman, Chris; Wu, D.J. - NET Institute - 2009
In this study we examine the antecedents of small independent software vendor (ISV) decisions to join a platform … industries is positively associated with the propensity to partner. The results highlight the role of innovation appropriation …
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Do Online Marketplaces Become More Efficient Over Time?
Fradkin, Andrey - NET Institute - 2012
An increasing proportion of transactions in two-sided markets are being mediated by online platforms. Presumably, agents choose to use online platforms because they have a lower transaction cost technology compared to alternatives. I use data from a growing online platform that matches travelers...
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Inter-generational Transitions In Technological Ecosystems: The Case Of Mobile Telephony
Ansari, Shahzad; Garud, Raghu - NET Institute - 2007
Many technology studies have conceptualized transitions between technological generations as a series of S-curve performance improvements over time. Surprisingly, the interregnum between successive technological generations has received little attention. To understand what happens in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622711
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How Do Open Standards Influence Inventive Activity? Evidence from the IETF
Wen, Wen; Forman, Chris; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka - NET Institute - 2014
firms that do not contribute standards but potentially produce to the standards. In the context of the Internet Engineering …
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The Internet and Hate Crime: Offline Spillovers from Online Access
Chan, Jason; Ghose, Anindya; Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2013
The Internet has had profound effects on society, both positive and negative. In this paper we examine the effect of … the Internet on a negative spillover: hate crime. In order to better understand the link, we study the extent to which …, suggesting that the direct effect of the Internet on hate crime is primarily due to a heightening of pre-existing propensities to …
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Tarantino, Emanuele - NET Institute - 2011
We present a model of industry standard setting with two-sided asymmetric information about the existence of intellectual property. We provide an equilibrium analysis of (a) firms' incentives to communicate ideas for improvements of an industry standard, and (b) firms' decisions to disclose the...
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Media, Aggregators and the Link Economy: Strategic Hyperlink Formation in Content Networks
Dellarocas, Chrysanthos; Katona, Zsolt; Rand, William - NET Institute - 2010
A key property of the World Wide Web is the possibility for firms to place virtually costless links to third-party content as a substitute or complement to their own content. This ability to hyperlink has enabled new types of players, such as search engines and content aggregators, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672214
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Online Peer-to-peer Communities: An Empirical Investigation of a Music Sharing Network as a Dynamic Two-sided Network
Gu, Bin; Huang, Yun; Duan, Wenjing; Whinston, Andrew B. - NET Institute - 2007
Online peer-to-peer communities and online social networks have become increasingly popular. In particular, the recent boost of online peer-to-peer communities leads to exponential growth in sharing of user-contributed content which have brought profound changes to business and economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622705
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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...
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