Path-dependence without increasing returns to scale and network externalities

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 159-172

  Balmann, Alfons ^b   Odening, Martin ^b   Weikard, Hans Peter ^a   Brandes, Wilhelm ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Network externalities; Path dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008666393     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-2681(95)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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