Mix and Match (Classic Reprint): Product Compatibility Without Network Externalities: Product Compatibility Without Network Externalities (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Matutes, Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1332445950 ISBN 13: 9781332445950

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Explore how standardizing product components can reshape consumer choices, pricing, and welfare in markets with multiple firms. This book models systems as collections of components and asks when compatibility between firms' offerings benefits or harms different buyers.

Through a multi-stage framework, the author analyzes scenarios where full compatibility can be enforced by one firm or only by mutual agreement. The work shows that compatibility can increase the range of systems available and change firms’ incentives to cut prices, with varied effects on social and consumer surplus. Additional discussions cover partial compatibility, bundling, and how market structure influences outcomes.

• See how assembling components from different firms creates more system options for consumers


• Learn how compatibility affects price competition and firm profits under different rules


• Understand welfare implications for various types of consumers and potential standardization costs


• Explore extensions like partial compatibility and bundling strategies

Ideal for readers interested in industrial organization, market design, and the economics of standards.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1332445950
• ISBN 13: 9781332445950
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 79
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