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- Publications
- Influence
Path Dependence, Lock-In, and History
- S. Liebowitz, S. Margolis
- Sociology
- 9 April 1995
Do economies and markets make remediable errors in the choice of products? Does the economy "lock-in" to these incorrect choices even when the knowledge that these choices are incorrect is readily… Expand
Network externality : an uncommon tragedy
- S. Liebowitz, S. Margolis
- Economics
- 1 May 1994
Economists have defined 'network externality' and have examined putative inframarginal market failures associated with it. This paper distinguishes between network effects and network externalities,… Expand
Copying and Indirect Appropriability: Photocopying of Journals
- S. Liebowitz
- Economics
- Journal of Political Economy
- 1 October 1985
Creators and owners of intellectual properties are alarmed by the growth of technologies that ease the tasks of copying these properties. This paper, however, shows that the unauthorized copying of… Expand
File Sharing: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?*
- S. Liebowitz
- Economics, Business
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 April 2006
The sharing of sound recordings over the Internet is the newest controversy in a long-running battle between copyright owners and copying technologies. In order to provide some context, perspective,… Expand
Assessing the Relative Impacts of Economic Journals
- S. Liebowitz, J. Palmer
- Political Science
- 1984
A CADEMIC JOURNALS have played an increasingly important role in the dissemination of scientific information throughout this century, particularly during the last decade.1 This fact is no less true… Expand
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The Fable of the Keys
- S. Liebowitz, S. Margolis
- Sociology
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- 1 April 1990
This paper examines the history of the QWERTY typewriter keyboard, often put forward as the archetypical case of markets choosing the wrong standard. Contrary to the claims made by Paul David and… Expand
Will Mp3 Downloads Annihilate the Record Industry? The Evidence so Far
- S. Liebowitz
- Geology
- 1 June 2003
This paper investigates the impact of unauthorized downloading of MP3 files on the recording industry. Although the no longer extant Napster was the most famous system used for such downloading, its… Expand
Research Note - Testing File Sharing's Impact on Music Album Sales in Cities
- S. Liebowitz
- Business, Computer Science
- Manag. Sci.
- 1 April 2008
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Determinants of New Product Development Team Performance: A Meta‐analytic Review
- Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, S. Liebowitz, C. Lackman
- Business
- 1 September 2012
New product development (NPD) has become a critical determinant of firm performance. There is a considerable body of research examining the factors that influence a firm's ability to successfully… Expand
ARE NETWORK EXTERNALITIES A NEW SOURCE OF MARKET FAILURE
- S. Liebowitz, S. Margolis
- Sociology
- 1995
, Vol. 17 1995, Pp. 1-22 S. J. Liebowitz Stephen E. Margolis S. J. Liebowitz: Management School, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75083 Stephen E. Margolis: Department of Economics,… Expand
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