Network externalities, product compatibility and process innovation

D Buccella, L Fanti, L Gori - Economics of Innovation and New …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This article augments d'Aspremont and Jacquemin's [1988.“Cooperative and
Noncooperative R&D in Duopoly with Spillovers.” American Economic Review 78: 1133 …

Corporate social responsibility and network externalities: a game-theoretic approach

D Buccella, L Fanti, L Gori, M Sodini - Annals of Operations Research, 2024 - Springer
This research revisits the pioneering work by Katz and Shapiro (Am Econom Rev 75: 424–
440, 1985) with network (consumption) externalities in a twofold way: first, it considers …

Profitability of corporate social responsibility in network industries

L Fanti, D Buccella - International Review of Economics, 2018 - Springer
The present paper shows that, when firms compete in a non-cooperative way on the level of
corporate social responsibility (CSR) in network industries, the conventional result of the …

Managerial delegation, network externalities and loan commitment

X Lian, K Zhang, LFS Wang - The Manchester School, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we show that, compared with no network externalities, firms always obtain
higher profits and social welfare in the presence of positive network externalities …

[HTML][HTML] Optimal R&D disclosure in network industries

D Buccella, L Fanti, L Gori - Economic Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
The R&D literature framed in a strategic context shows two unpleasant outcomes for the
public goods nature of knowledge: 1) the private R&D activity results in under-investment …

The strategic adoption of environmental corporate social responsibility with network externalities

M Xing, SH Lee - The BE Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2024 - degruyter.com
This paper adopts a green managerial delegation model in a polluting network industry
wherein consumers form fulfilled rational expectations of network externalities. We show that …

Collusion in a differentiated duopoly with network externalities

R Song, LFS Wang - Economics Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Conventional wisdom is that collusion between firms will be destabilized when they produce
closer substitutes of products. We show that, in the presence of strong network externalities …

[PDF][PDF] Network externalities and corporate social responsibility

L Fanti, D Buccella - Economics Bulletin, 2016 - researchgate.net
This paper examines a duopoly market with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) firms
(sensitive to consumer surplus). It is shown that, in contrast to the conventional result that the …

Prisoner dilemma in a vertical duopoly with managerial delegation

S Colombo - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We consider managerial delegation with two firms producing goods of different qualities. We
show that both firms choose to delegate in equilibrium, but a prisoner dilemma is not …

The impacts of suppliers and mutual outsourcing on organizational forms

Y Arai, N Matsushima - Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We consider a downstream duopoly model with a monopolistic common supplier and mutual
outsourcing between the two symmetric downstream firms. The market structure captures the …