The Economics of Network Industries
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| Rating | : | 4.38 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521805007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Oz Shy is on the faculty of economics at the University of Haifa, in Haifa, Israel. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and video players, and service operations in businesses overseas, banking, law, and airlines. His previous book is Industrial Organization: Theory and Applications (MIT Press, 1996).. Oz Shy conveys the essential features of how strategic interactions among firms are affected by network activity, and how social interaction influences consumers' choices of products and services. Networks are fastest-growing components in most industries
It should be read those students, scholars or decision/policy makers who want to understand something about this new (although sometimes quite old) domain of human activity and academic research." Jacques Thisse, CORE, Belgium"This valuable book about critical area of growing economic importance, by an author who himself has made significant contributions to the subject, fills a real gap in the market. The array of topics covered is impressive: it ranges for the hardware and software industries to bank- and money-related issues. Oz Shy has managed to package it beautifully so that it is accessible to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students." Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley"Oz Shy offers us in his latest book a very elegant, neat, and simple presentation of what economists have accomplished in the field of network good
Network economics in one solid and compact book Mikko Valimaki This is an original academic textbook for network economics. Oz Shy starts the book by making some reasonable claims on his discipline at large: scientific papers in economics are too technical and use unnecessary amounts of calculus. Though the book is very analytical and covers a wide scope of issues, prerequisites are at a considerably low level. Because the book uses game theory and logical reasoning instead of calculus, it is accessible to readers with different. "Buy Gottinger's book instead" according to A Customer. This is a very interesting book that covers the full range of network industries - and is in many ways a welcome addition to the literature.However, I found the pitch of the book to be not quite right. In an attempt to satisfy a student market, the presentation is a little simplistic in places. Although there are IO courses everywhere, there are few solely devoted to network industries - so it is surprising that the publishers risked producing a paperback.As a consum. ttang said Great high-level perspective of network effects. I think this book is very clearly written and contains a lot of content in very little space. The models are basic and easy to understand, but that is entirely the point. It presents a great starting point for an undergraduate interested in this area, and even for graduate students who want to know the general landscape before delving into deeper, more technical papers. Like Fudenberg & Tirole's Industrial Organization (IO) text, the papers it draws from are mostly I