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between consumer and social preferences for compatibility. …
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In this paper, we consider two firms diffusing incompatible technologies and their decision of consumer targeting. The technology adoption is made in two steps. First, once the firms sell their products to their respective targeted consumer, the technology is diffused successively by...
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Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting-point, this article systematically elaborates the central qualities of the commodity which have implications for its production and cost structure, the demand, the...
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This paper analyzes the compatibility decision of a dominant hardware supplier. There are two substitutive variants of …
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acquisition relative to entry. A policy enforcing strict compatibility leads to more entry, but can be counterproductive by …
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effects and compatibility between networks. Network effects are measured by the dependence of consumer willingness to pay on … the installed base of subscribers. Compatibility is measured by the relative extent of cross- and own-network effects. I … network effects and - despite full interconnection of the mobile telephone networks - low compatibility. I also show that …
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