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Durable Goods Monopoly with Network Externalities with Application to the Pc Operating Systems Market

Economides, Nicholas - 2014

of network externalities arising from weak partial forward compatibility (influencing the demand of the old good from … sales of the new one) is low compared to the intensity of network externalities arising from partial backward compatibility … incentives regarding the degree of forward compatibility of the new product (that defines the extent of network externalities of …

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin E. - 2014

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile-phone networks, offer plans with download limits: through one of two mechanisms, doing so causes the providers of the content consumer purchase to either reduce their prices or...

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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation …

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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

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The Antitrust Economics of Two-Sided Markets

Evans, David S. - 2022

indirect network effects available on both sides. By doing so, businesses in two-sided industries get both sides on board and …

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Compatibility and Market Structure for Network Goods

Economides, Nicholas; Flyer, Fredrick - 2008

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 …' production technologies. This may explain the frequent domination of network industries by one or two firms. We also find that …

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas - 2014

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 competition...

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Taxation in Two-Sided Markets

Kind, Hans Jarle; Koethenbuerger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2021

Two-sided platform firms serve distinct customer groups that are connected through interdependent demand, and include major businesses such as the media industry, banking, and the software industry. A well known textbook result in one-sided markets is that a government may increase a...

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Two-sided markets and electronic intermediaries

Jullien, Bruno - 2004

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...

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You are judged by the company you keep : reputation leverage in vertically related markets

Choi, Jay Pil; Peitz, Martin - 2016

This paper analyzes a mechanism through which a supplier of unknown quality can overcome its asymmetric information problem by selling via a reputable downstream rm. The supplier s adverse-selection problem can be solved if the downstream rm has established a reputation for delivering high...

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