The need for international comparative studies of national systems of public finance has increased immeasurably, especially since the establishment of international organizations such as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund, following World War II, and because of the necessity...

This paper analyzes the unilateral choices of application compatibility by platforms and the endogenous affiliations of two different groups (content providers and users). We find a novel result that for both platforms to unilaterally choose application compatibility is not an equilibrium unless...