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Compatibility and Market Structure for Network Goods

Economides, Nicholas; Flyer, Fredrick - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 1997

This paper analyzes the economics of industries where network externalities are significant. In such industries, firms have strong incentives to adhere to common technical compatibility standards, so that they reap the network externalities of the whole group. However, a firm also benefits from...

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Critical Mass and Network Size with Application to the US Fax Market

Economides, Nicholas; Himmelberg, Charles - Economics Department, Stern School of Business - 1995

We analyze the equilibrium size of networks under alternative market structures. Networks are characterized by positive … the three equilibrium networks. As a result, small networks will not observed. We call critical mass the size of the … compatible network goods support networks of smaller size than perfect competition and larger than monopoly. We extend our …

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The Economics of Networks

Economides, Nicholas - In: Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics 1 (1997) December

I analyze the salient features of networks and point out the similarities between the economic structure of networks …

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Two-sided competition of proprietary vs. open source technology platforms and the implications for the software industry

Economides, Nicholas; Katsamakas, Evangelos - NET Institute - 2005

Technology platforms, such as Microsoft Windows, are the hubs of technology industries. We develop a framework to characterize the optimal two-sided pricing strategy of a platform firm, that is, the pricing strategy towards the direct users of the platform as well as towards firms offering...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers’ products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the...

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Network neutrality on the Internet: A two-sided market analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 2, pp. 91-104

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group...

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Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007

We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that...

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“Net Neutrality,” Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2007

The vast majority of US residential consumers face a monopoly or duopoly in broadband Internet access. Up to now, the Internet was characterized by a regime of “net neutrality” where there was no discrimination in the price of a transmitted information packet based on the identities of...

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Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007

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The Economics of Network Neutrality

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2010

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of information transmitted rather than its content. These...

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