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Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom:...
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We study the strategic choice of compatibility between two initially incompatible network goods in a two-stage game … occurs for sufficiently strong network effects. The welfare analysis shows that the equilibrium compatibility regime is … socially inefficient for most levels of the network effects …
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This paper investigates how switching costs affect product compatibility and market dynamics in network industries. A … network industries can change the market outcome from compatible products to incompatible products. In the former, price …
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services and effective congestion management. Both sides neglect network externalities - the value of broadband to each content … to internalize the network externality. This suggests an alternative approach - a minimum quality of service standard …
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We study the strategic choice of compatibility between two initially incompatible network goods in a two-stage game … and the possibility of side payments. With incompatibility, entry deterrence occurs for sufficiently strong network … equilibrium unless side payments are allowed and the network externalities are sufficiently low. When both firms can build a one …
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