Why the QWERTY phenomenon is not just in the theorists’ minds yet not pose a problem in reality
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Keywords
platform selection; two-sided markets; status quo bias; QWERTY-phenomenon; creative destruction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2016-03-29 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HME-2016-03-29 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-HPE-2016-03-29 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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