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| | Network effect - Open Encyclopedia |
 | | The network effect (or network externality) causes a good or service to have a value to a potential customer dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. | | | However, network effects need not lead to market dominance by one firm, when there are standards which allow multiple firms to interoperate, thus allowing the network externalities to benefit the entire market. | | | One consequence of a network effect is that the purchase of a good by one individual indirectly benefits others who own the good - for example by purchasing a telephone a person makes other telephones more useful. |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Network_effect
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| | Network Externalities (Effects) |
| | If economists, for example, much prefer to have other economists join their network as opposed to, say, sociologists, then it would be possible for economists to form a coalition that switches to a new standard even if the new standard failed to attract many sociologists. | | | The literature on network externalities challenges economists' traditional use of decreasing returns and grants primacy to economies to scale. | | | Two important limitations of many network externalities models are the assumptions of constant marginal production cost and network value functions that rise without limit [see, for example, Chou and Shy (1990: 260), Church and Gandal (1993: 246), Katz and Shapiro (1986: 829), and Farrell and Saloner (1992: 16)]. |
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http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/palgrave/network.html
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| | DSI 98 Network Externalities in the WWW Server Market Paper |
| | Network externalities are likely to be strong in IT markets since most IT products or services support or facilitate some sort of information exchange. | | | The results suggest that network externalities were present in markets where priced products dominate, however markets where free products dominate did not exhibit network externalities. | | | The network externalities hypothesis is tested in two software market segments, one dominated by priced products (Windows web servers) and the other dominated by free products (UNIX web servers). |
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http://www2.bc.edu/~gallaugh/research/dsi98.html
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| | ArgMax Economics Weblog: The Economics of Networks: Interview with N. Economides |
| | Network externalities arise directly in telecommunications and fax networks as well as in the internet, financial exchange (stock market), credit card, and ATM networks. | | | Network industries have features I discussed above that should be taken into account in giving public policy advice. | | | The winner is often the company that is willing to sell at a low price for a long time to gain market share and reap the externalities. |
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http://www.argmax.com/mt_blog/archive/000235.php
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| | Innovation, Competition, and the Theory of Network Externalities |
| | Networks of users of compatible videocassette recorders, which exhibit what are probably small direct benefits from the ability to exchange cassettes and much larger indirect benefits from being able to purchase or rent a wider variety of pre-recorded cassettes that employ the same format. | | | As I have already noted, network externalities exist when the value of a product to any user is greater the larger is the number of other users of the same product. | | | Preannouncing products in order to discourage users from joining rival networks. |
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http://www.econ.yale.edu/alumni/reunion99/besen.htm
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| | SSRN-Marketing Strategies for Products with Cross-Market Network Externalities by Steven Strauss |
| | The results demonstrate that in the presence of the cross-market network externality, it is optimal for the price of one product to increase relative to the price of the other product (by comparison with expected prices in the absence of the externality effect). | | | In competition between firms, it is individually rational for each firm to attempt to maximize its own cross-market network externality. | | | However (and counter-intuitively), as all firms strive to increase the cross-market externality related to their products, a worse industry-wide solution results. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=248677
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| | Cybertelecom :: Notes Definitions |
| | Currently, the Internet is divided primarily into six top level domains: (1).edu for educational institutions; (2).org for non-governmental and non-commercial organizations; (3).gov for governmental entities; (4).net for networks; (5).com for commercial users, and (6) a nation-specific domain, which is.us in the United States. | | | But all these registrars grant such names primarily on a first-come, first-served basis upon payment of a small registration fee. | | | "Nevertheless, based on the record before us, we are inclined to agree with GTE and other commenters that Internet backbone services, which we define to be the transporting and routing of packets between and among ISPs and regional backbone networks, constitutes a separate relevant product market. |
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http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/def.htm
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| | Internet Public Library: Economics |
| | Sponsored by Andersen Consulting in conjunction with Wired Magazine, this encyclopedia discusses topics ranging from "adhocracy" to "distributed systems," "ECash" to "Netscape," and "network externalities" to "zero sum." Essays have a wonderful tongue-in-cheek quality while still presenting useful descriptions and definitions. | | | Journal providing reviews and surveys of topical issues relevant to network industries, dissemination of insightful critiques. | | | The site offers access to a wide array of research such as accounting, economics and the law. |
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http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/bus28.00
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| | Network Externalities |
| | He argues these network externalities, associated with new technologies, may prevent foreign governments from entering into trade negotiations. | | | These authors discussed the relationship between discounting pricing and network externalities. | | | Network externalities are positive externalities that arise when a consumer benefits from another consumer using the network. |
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http://students.ou.edu/P/James.H.Penland-1/NE.html
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| | Liebowitz covers a lot of issues: the exaggerated advantages of Internet retailing over conventional retailing; the false claim that the Internet's lower costs would give Internet firms bigger profits; the inadequacies of the broadcast -television model of advertising revenues; the poorly understood questions of copyright and digital-rights management. | | | If you want to know how to integrate the Internet into your business or how to judge the future success of Internet-based firms, or if you just want a master economist's understanding of the Internet's impact on the economy, Re-Thinking the Network Economy is the book for you. | | | Although, Katz and Shapiro have changed some of their positions to accommodate our criticisms, we would have been happier if they had been willing to acknowledge their debt to our work. |
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http://wwwpub.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/netpage.html
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| | Research on Network Economics |
| | Bailey, J., L. McKnight, and P. Bosco, " The Economics of Advanced Services in an Open Communications Infrastructure: Transaction Costs, Production Costs, and Network Externalities," presented at: Workshop on Interoperability and the Economics of Information Infrastructure Freedom Forum, Rosslyn, Virginia, July 6-7, 1995. | | | Economides, Nicholas, " Commentary on Antitrust Economics of Credit Card Networks," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, November-December 1995, pp. | | | The Land Reform in Taiwan: A review of former land reform policies |
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http://yaya.it.cycu.edu.tw/online
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| | 4. Copyright in markets with network externalities |
| | This section describes potential business strategies that publisher might engage in and describes alternatives to copyright protection such as contractual and technological layers of protection, that help publishers appropriate revenue from their information goods. | | | Besides the characteristics of the market and the existence of network effects, the standard model ignores the fact that the decrease in cost of copying also provides new opportunities for publishers. |
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http://www.cpb.nl/nl/pub/werkdoc/122/cr/4.html
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| | Connections--FEATURES |
| | One of the governing principles of the internet and the new "information economy" is network externalities. | | | A user is more likely to continue to use a product or service that allows them to have that type of reassurance. | | | Network externalities are one type of positive externality. |
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http://www.si.umich.edu/Community/connections/archives/externalities.html
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| | Pricing Strategies for Electronic B2B Marketplaces with Two-Sided Network Externalities |
| | When these two-sided network externalities exist, we find that the optimal price for buyers and the fraction of buyers in electronic market are dependent on the switching cost and the strength of the network effect of both types: buyers and suppliers. | | | The marketplace exhibits two-sided network externalities where the value of the marketplace to buyers is dependent on the number of suppliers, and value to suppliers is dependent on the number of buyers and suppliers. | | | Index Terms- Intermediation, business-to-business commerce, network externalities, pricing strategy |
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http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/hicss/2001/0981/08/0981toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/HICSS.2001.927168
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| | ECONOMICS OF LANGUAGE: A NETWORK EXTERNALITIES APPROACH |
| | Considering the significance of network industries in modern economies, the vast attention they have received in recent years does not surprise. | | | They arise when a person, attending to their own activities, unintentionally renders services or disservices to other persons of a sort that payment from the benefited parties is not exacted, either because the exaction would be too expensive to execute or is technically not possible to implement, nor can compensation to injured parties be compelled. | | | The first objective is to use the lessons from the economics of networks to gain insights into the rationale for individual choices concerning issues of language and into the economic and social implications of these choices. |
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http://www.pch.gc.ca/progs/lo-ol/perspectives/english/explorer/page_03.html
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| | R&D in the Presence of Network Externalities: Timing and Compatibility |
| | I show that network externalities may induce the firms to introduce new incompatible technologies early, which is socially harmful as the R&D costs increase, and de facto standardization becomes less likely. | | | Abstract: Two rival firms decide on the time of R&D and whether the new products should be compatible. | | | An ex post optimal standardization policy may increase the incentives for early product introduction and consequently be an undesirable policy ex ante. |
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http://www.rje.org/abstracts/abstracts/1998/Autumn_1998._pp._531_547.html
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| | Therefore when making their decision, they compare the net benefit of A to the net benefit of B given prices and the knowledge of whether N1 is X1 or Y1. | | | First period consumers care about the decision of the succeeding generation which affects through the network externality their very own well-being. | | | Consumers in period 2 know the network sizes of the preceding period. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/zerbe/docs/Antitrust_NetworkExternalities.doc
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| | Competing Compatibility Standards and Network Externalities in the PC Software Market |
| | The results are that only the LOTUS file compatibility standard is significant in explaining price variations and it is significant in both the spreadsheet and database management system markets. | | | This paper is an empirical study of the value of four file compatibility standards for transferring data in the personal computer software market. | | | Competing Compatibility Standards and Network Externalities in the PC Software Market |
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http://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v77y1995i4p599-608.html
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| | Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management - Contents |
| | Fully updated to reflect the major developments that have occurred in knowledge management; globalization; ethics and governance related issues; new technologies; networks and alliances; and new organizational forms. | | | This edition also has entries on the Microsoft antitrust case, market microstructure and more which will be of interest to readers. | | | We now have entries on the internet (lock-in, network externalities, etc.) and on the EU (competition policy, merger policy). |
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http://www.managementencyclopedia.com/contents.asp
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| | voluntaryXchange: Ignoring Network Externalities |
| | For example, as individuals we might not all choose to use Microsoft Office, but the value of that product increases for each of us as more and more people adopt it. | | | A network externality is the idea that society may benefit as a whole from what is normally considered to be a bad thing. | | | But, there is a big fat objective reason for discouraging their use - network externalities. |
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http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/2005/01/ignoring_networ.html
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| | Announcement & Call for Papers |
| | Firms’ strategies with network externalities (prices, product differentiation, quality choice, competition) | | | Case studies of markets with network externalities (software, computers, mobile communication etc.) | | | The objective of the Workshop is to discuss recent contributions to the understanding of network externalities and its consequences for economic policy. |
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http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/eco/conferences/May21-22-2001.htm
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| | Network Economics |
| | Search the global namespace for entries or availability of a namespace. | | | Economists say that a network externality exists when the amount that one party is willing to pay for access to a network depends on who or how many other parties are connected to it. | | | The paper addresses the problem in terms of measurable criteria that can be used to examine the feasibility of unit investments in networking at national, regional or local levels. |
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http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/resources/infoecon/Networks.html
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| | Internet Public Library: Computers & Internet |
| | Sponsored by Andersen Consulting in conjunction with Wired Magazine, this encyclopedia discusses topics ranging from "adhocracy" to "distributed systems," "ECash" to "Netscape," and "network externalities" to "zero sum." Essays have a wonderful tongue-in-cheek quality while still presenting useful descriptions and definitions. | | | Computer operating systems and computer standards that run them. | | | The electronic communications network that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. |
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http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/div/subject/browse/com00.00
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| | Irreversible Choice of Uncertain Technologies with Network Externalities |
| | Technological Change: Choices and Consequences Includes Impact on Production, Welfare, Income Distribution, International Competitiveness, Military Power, Measurement, and Case Studies; International Transfer of Technology (O330) | | | Irreversible Choice of Uncertain Technologies with Network Externalities | | | Early potential users are shown to adopt an irreversible technology too early compared to the social optimum. |
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http://www.rje.org/abstracts/abstracts/1994/Autumn_1994._pp._382_401.html
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| | Should We Wait? Network Externalities, Compatibility, and Electronic Billing Adoption |
| | When the higher costs of early adoption are taken into account, the model shows that billers are more willing to wait, ceteris paribus. | | | Network externalities play a significant role: the more billers that adopt the technology, the more consumers are willing to use the services. | | | Key words and phrases: electronic billing presentment and payment (EBPP), electronic commerce, financial services network externalities, standards, technology adoption |
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http://jmis.bentley.edu/articles/v18_n2_p47
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| | Abstract - Electronic purses and the network externalities theory |
| | The first section of the paper defines the concept of network externalities. | | | To that end the paper presents a pragmatic (and selective) reading of the network externalities literature; i.e., it screens the literature in search of both theoretical insights and empirical results which can be transposed to the case of electronic payment instruments. | | | The third section demonstrates that payment cards in general are indeed network goods. |
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http://cfec.vub.ac.be/cfec/abstract_netw.htm
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| | Product Introduction with Network Externalities |
| | The authors study the introduction of a new product in a market with network externalities. | | | There is a common presumption that such markets exhibit excess inertia, i.e., that they are biased toward existing products. | | | "Hedonic price indexes for spreadsheets and an empirical test of the network externalities hypothesis," Industrial Organization 9309002, Economics Working Paper Archive at WUSTL. |
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http://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jindec/v40y1992i1p55-83.html
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| | Network Externalities |
| | Value of Product = +f{Installed Base [network] of compatible products}. | | | The "value" or "power" of a network increases in proportion to the square of the number of nodes on the network | | | Result in the Emergence of a Dominant Design. |
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http://faculty.washington.edu/emer/sw/inforules/tsld005.htm
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| | Economides (1996) Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter |
| | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. | | | Economides (1996) Network Externalities, Complementarities, and Invitations to Enter |
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http://www.getcited.org/?PUB=103396826&showStat=Ratings
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