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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 … Task Force, we find that as a technological area releases 100 more open standards contributed by commercial firms, non … technological area is stronger when the standards-contributing firms hold a large fraction of complementary intellectual property …

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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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The Effect of the Internet on Performance and Quality: Evidence from the Airline Industry

Ater, Itai; Orlov, Eugene - NET Institute - 2013

How did the diffusion of the Internet affect performance and product quality in the airline industry? We argue that the shift to online distribution channels has changed the way airlines compete for customers - from an environment in which airlines compete for space at the top of travel...

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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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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...

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The Effect of the Internet on Newspaper Readability

Salami, Abdallah; Seamans, Robert - NET Institute - 2014

How has the Internet affected newspaper content? We build a dataset that matches newspaper readability measures to Internet penetration at the county-year level from 2000 – 2008. We document a positive relationship between Internet penetration and newspaper readability. This result appears...

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Sequential selling and information dissemination in the presence of network effects

Zhou, Junjie; Chen, Ying-Ju - NET Institute - 2014

In this paper, we examine how a seller sells a product/service with a positive consumption externality, and customers are uncertain about the product's/service's value. Because early adopters learn this value, we consider the customers' intrinsic signaling incentives and positive feedback...

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Quality Competition in Mobile Telecommunications: Evidence from Connecticut

Sun, Patrick - NET Institute - 2014

Signal quality is a significant contributor to the overall quality of wireless telephone service, which competitive analyses often overlooks. To understand the competitive impact of signal quality investment on further consolidation in this industry, I use a market research survey of choice of...

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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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Matching & Information Provision by One-Sided and Two-Sided Platforms

Canon, Carlos - NET Institute - 2011

This paper studies a "market creating" firm (platform) that offers a matching environment by charging an access fee to a population of high and low type users who wish to form a match. We focus on an environment where users only observe a signal of their randomly assigned partner's type and...

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