We develop a duopoly model with advertising supported platforms and analyze incentives of a superior firm to license its advanced technologies to an inferior rival. We highlight the role of two technologies characteristic for media platforms: The technology to produce content and to place...

Ultrabroadband (UBB) is becoming increasingly an important techno-economic and policy issue. New advances and greater convergence of wireline and wireless technologies allow for faster communications and more applications which require higher speeds of transmission. Many countries perform...

This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new ebusiness technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firm' adoption timing. When innovation and adoption require large set-up costs, the...

This paper presents a duopoly model of e-business technology adoption. A leader and a follower benefit from a new e-business technology with uncertain quality depending on its innovation and adoption cost and both firms' adoption timing. When innovation and adoption require large set-up costs,...