The Simple Welfare Economics of Network Externalities and the Uneasy Case for Subscribership Subsidies

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 245-254

  Barnett, A H ^a   Kaserman, David L ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0032391531     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008029120462     Document Type: Article

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