If there’s one thing Canadians agree on, it’s that Canada’s wireless industry can and should be more competitive. The federal government is on side with the policy objective of having four carriers in every region and has responded with policies that provide commercial advantages to...

This paper specifies and estimates a dynamic model of consumer preferences for new durable goods with persistent heterogeneous consumer tastes, rational expectations about future products and repeat purchases over time. Most new consumer durable goods, particularly consumer electronics, are...

Library is a place where knowledge resides, in the form of books, journals, and audio visuals such as CDs and DVDs. The management and maintenance of a library is a very crucial and time consuming task. Since long, libraries have been using Barcode technology for the maintenance of books and...

Despite their potential efficiency benefits, voluntary consensus standards have over the past decade become the subject of significant private litigation, regulatory enforcement and policy debate. Much of the controversy centers on the perceived proliferation of patents covering standardized...

This paper studies (1) whether, from a welfare point of view, oligopolistic competition leads to too few or too many products in a market, and (2) how a change in competition affects the number and the composition of product offerings. We address these two questions in the context of the U.S....

Availability of real-time information facilitates efficient production coordination. Effective applications of RFID technology in the automated manufacturing environment can help optimize system. Information available on real time basis, increase the efficiency and effectiveness of any...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is one of the latest trend in various industries which has changed the way automation is done. Data sharing on real time basis and without requirement of line of sight are the most important advantages of using this technology, as the...

Many durable goods, particularly in the high technology sector of the economy, experience rapid quality improvement. As a result, replacement is typically due to obsolescence rather than breakdown, and replacement cycles are relatively short. When these goods are vertically differentiated,...

During last decades, innovation seems to have become a strategic priority for firms facing an uncertain environment with volatile characteristics. In a context where competition today largely overflows the confines of simple domination by costs and enters more and more into the domain of...

56K modems were introduced under two competing incompatible standards. We show the importance of competition between Internet Service Providers in the adoption process. We show that ISP's were less likely to adopt the technology that more competitors adopted. This result is particularly striking...