Standards and public policy
By: edited by Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango.
Contributors: Greenstein, Shane M.; Stango, Victor.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780521864503
Subjects: Telecommunication policy; Telecommunication -- Standards; Information technology -- Standards
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Standard setting in markets : the browser war / Timothy F. Bresnahan, Pai-Ling Yin; title: Competition through institutional form : the case of cluster tool standards / Richard N. Langolois; title: The economic realities of open standards : black, white, and many shades of gray / Joel West; title: Coordination costs and standard setting : lessons from 56K modems / Shane Greenstein, Marc Rysman; title: Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards : lessons from the US home mortgage industry / Charles W. Steinfield, Rolf T. Wigand, M. Lynne Markus, Gabe Minton; title: Manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive strategy / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Janet S. Netz; title: Delay and de jure standardization : exploring the slowdown in Internet standards development / Timothy Simcoe; title: Standardization : a failing paradigm / Carl Cargill, Sherrie Bolin; title: Standards battles and public policy / Luis M.B. Cabral, Tobias Ketschmer; title: Switching to digital television : business and public policy issues / Norbert Maier, Marco Ottaviani; title: Should competition policy favor compatibility? / Joseph Farrell.