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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Network Externalities"”.
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The Behavior of Technology Suppliers in the Presence of Network Externalities
… of technology suppliers in the presence of network externalities with a focus on economies of compatibility setting and promotional pricing. Positive network externalities arise when a good is more valuable to a user because more users adopt the same good or compatible ones. There are two …
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Competition and Merger in Network Economy
… behavior in modern<br/>economies in which networks are ever-more important and how to optimize merger<br/>policy when network externalities present. As a demand-side economics of scale,<br/>network externalities bring benefit to consumers through merger and acquisition if the<br/>products …
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System dynamics simulation of the telecom industry
… and areas of the telecom industry, including network externalities, investment strategies, regulation, standardization of products, and behavior of consumer welfare. Main conclusions include the convexity of risk/return tradeoff in R&D investment under severe network externalities, as well as …
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Bridging the Rural - Urban Digital Divide in Residential Internet Access
… on the roles that household characteristics, network externalities, and digital communication technology (DCT) infrastructure potentially play. This framework is transferred into a statistical model of household Internet access, where non-linear decomposition techniques are employed to …
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Essays in industrial organization
… on equilibrium outcomes. Finally, I quantify the network externalities that must be present in order for observed fees to constitute an equilibrium. In the paper, I begin by developing a tractable model of the platform's problem that generates testable predictions and yields equilibrium conditions …
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Location based technology and services : a business plan and in-depth industry analysis
… topics such as the S-curve, value chain, network externalities, entry strategies, and technology diffusion. Building off of this analysis, a business plan for a location-based application is presented.
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Telematics industry dynamics and strategies for converging technologies
… systems and establishment of standards, network externalities effects and attractiveness of complementors, customer's willingness to pay, telematics services pricing, and consumer knowledge of newer technology. Based on an in-depth analysis of the telematics architecture and the …
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Default Risk in the Automotive Supply Network
… are internalized by firms in the car-part supply network in their decisions to form new business relationships. Choosing to be agnostic about the process of contract-offer arrivals to a supplier from car manufacturers, I first use reduced-form evidence to exhibit the pattern of network …
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The demand for gambling: Empirical evidence from state-operated lotteries and football pools in Spain
… markets and spending on lotteries, focusing on network externalities in consumer spending on closely related lottery goods. Next, we study the demand for a particular game, paying attention to the factors that explain why individuals bet, especially, those that refer to the design of the game …
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Implementing technical transitions through schedule-based policy : insights from the Military's Airborne Tactical Network
… constraints, the US Military's Airborne Tactical Network (ATN) is at the onset of a technical transition of their communication hardware and software. While the technical challenges appear to be addressed and agreed upon, the particular challenge lies in navigating the social and organizational …
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Bilateral exchanges in social networks and the design of public institutions
… thesis, I study bilateral exchanges in social networks. I integrate the market based approach in economics and network based approach in sociology. I also give a joint model of externalities and peer pressure in networks and propose mechanisms to control externalities in networked societies. …
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The development of a knowledge network framework to support knowledge mobilisation in IT project oriented change management
… change management, the topics of knowledge networks and mobilisation across knowledge boundaries are relatively unexplored. Recent developments in KM have heightened the need for more understanding on four main issues: 1) insufficient knowledge traceability based on the relationships between …
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Rammed, jammed and bifurcated : the convergence and divergence of intellectual property and competition policy in the digital environment
… in relation to the impact of IceTV v Nine Network (2009) in which the High Court re-evaluates the concepts of ‘originality’ and ‘substantial reproduction’, and as a consequence, address what members of the High Court described as the public interest ‘in maintaining a robust public domain in …
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Disintermediation and re-intermediation in the music business: the effect of multimedia technologies and E-commerce
… theories used to develop the frameworks include "network externalities" and "increasing returns" from economics, "value chain" from industrial organisation and theories on "search costs" and "quality uncertainty" from the economics of information. Special mention is given to the literature on the …
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The economic and financial effects of the introduction of Super League in Rugby League.
… television and the effect of this move on network externalities that could influence the long-term future of the game.</p> <p>The £87million financial investment from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation provided the catalyst for change, in exchange for the five-year exclusive broadcasting …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… dynamic pricing and optimal contracting with externalities. The first chapter studies how transparency (information disclosure), along with long term incentive of informed dealers, affect price informativeness (efficiency), market liquidity and welfare in dynamic over the counter (OTC) …