maintaining incompatibility with the variant of the competitor. It turns out that, depending on the significance of the network …

network effects, compatibility decisions and standardization, technology advances in network industries, two-sided markets …This paper surveys a variety of topics related to network economics. Topics covered include: consumer demand under …

aims at systemizing and enhancing scientific theory of network economies according to the particularities of transport …

We examine the formation of networks among a set of players whose payoffs depend on the structure of the network. We … network or only on the link itself. A final aspect is whether or not players can pay other players to refrain from forming … related either to accounting for a specific type of externality, or to dealing with the combinatorial nature of network …

shows that network externalities play a major role in the use of standards, and that, on the other hand, worldwide standards …

common standard of data structures. Since establishing a standard at a system element incurs standardization costs, a … standard. In a recent paper, it is claimed that this so-called standardization problem is an NP-hard optimization problem. We … will demonstrate that this is not true, but in fact the standardization problem can be solved in polynomial time by solving …

standard cases of integration and non-integration: platform standardization (both parties can veto changes) and open source (no …