Network externalities exist when the benefit a consumer derives from a good or service depends on the number of other consumers using the same good, or service (as happens, for example, with telecommunications, television broadcasting standards, and many other technology-related goods and services). National monopolies, regulated and endorsed by sovereign governments, tended to produce network externalities in the past: most countries had telephone...
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2000/04/30
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS2317
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2010/07/01
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Trade negotiations in the presence of network externalities
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regional bloc