The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware

David Dranove and Neil Gandal

Law and Economics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX slowed down the adoption of DVD technology. This suggests that strategic preannouncements can indeed affect the outcome of a standards competition.

JEL-codes: K21 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2001-01-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-law and nep-net
Note: 32 pages, Acrobat .pdf
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://econwpa.ub.uni-muenchen.de/econ-wp/le/papers/0012/0012001.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware (2000)
Working Paper: The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware (2000)
Working Paper: The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwple:0012001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Law and Economics from University Library of Munich, Germany
Bibliographic data for series maintained by EconWPA ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).