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PRICE SETTING AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF THE PC INDUSTRY

PRICE SETTING AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF THE PC INDUSTRY

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_24917037

PRICE SETTING AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF THE PC INDUSTRY

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PRICE SETTING AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF THE PC INDUSTRY

Publisher

Cambridge: The MIT Press

Journal title

The review of economics and statistics, 2016-07, Vol.98 (3), p.601-616

Language

English

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Cambridge: The MIT Press

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Contents

We examine how the confluence of competition and upstream innovation influences downstream firms' profit-maximizing strategies. We focus on personal computers and use two novel data sets to describe the dramatic fall in both price (27% at an annual rate) and sales of a computer over its product cycle. Further, we document that computers are typical...

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PRICE SETTING AND RAPID TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION: THE CASE OF THE PC INDUSTRY

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TN_cdi_jstor_primary_24917037

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_jstor_primary_24917037

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ISSN

0034-6535

E-ISSN

1530-9142

DOI

10.1162/REST_a_00539

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