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The Economics of Standards Wars

The Review of Network Economics

Vol. 3, Issue 1 - March 2004, pp 1-19



Author
  Victor Stango
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract
  Policymakers face an increasing number of questions regarding whether markets efficiently choose technological standards. In this essay I survey the economic literature regarding standards, focusing on arguments that markets move between standards either too slowly or too swiftly.

Keywords: Standards, compatibility, network effects, path dependence

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