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The value of disclosing IPR to open standard setting organizations

Hussinger, Katrin; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Open standard-setting organizations (SSOs) have emerged as important coordination and diffusion mechanism for information and communication technologies. Open standards are developed non-discriminatorily and licensed to anybody at reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. Little is known about...

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Who should pay for certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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Implications of Network Convergence on Local Access Regulation in the U.S. and the EU

Vanberg, Margit A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on the question of how unbundling regulations in the...

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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives

Vanberg, Margit A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...

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Money and privacy: Android market evidence

Kummer, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We...

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Adverse selection and moral hazard in anonymous markets

Klein, Tobias J.; Lambertz, Christian; Stahl, Konrad O. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We study the effects of improvements in eBay's rating mechanism on seller exit and continuing sellers' behavior. Following a large sample of sellers over time, we exploit the fact that the rating mechanism was changed to reduce strategic bias in buyer rating. That improvement did not lead to...

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A Note on Pricing and Efficiency in Print Media Industries

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

for advertising space. This paper develops a realistic, yet simple, model of print media industries. In contrast to … earlier studies, it takes into account that print media firms can neither set advertising space nor its price. A main finding … overstated since a print media firms? cover pricing is limited by its feedback on advertising demand. …

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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...

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Trade and technology: New evidence on the productivity sorting of firms

Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...

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