abstract The early 1970s witnessed three major advances in durable-goods theory—Swan,
Peter. 1970.“Durability of Consumption Goods.” American Economic Review. December, 60 …

The aim of this paper was to explore the implications of planned obsolescence (PO) and the
associated product lifetime on the environmental impact of products. To achieve this task, a …

Recent technological advances in online and mobile communications have enabled
collaborative consumption or product sharing among consumers on a massive scale …

The ways financial analysts, traders, and other specialists use information and learn from
each other are of fundamental importance to understanding how markets work and prices …

This paper investigates how the tying of complementary products can be used to preserve
and extend monopoly positions. We first show how a firm that is a monopolist of a product in …

The emerging discussion about the sustainability potential of distributed production is the
starting point for this paper. The focus is on the “design global, manufacture local” model …

Closed loop or 'circular'production systems known as Circular Economy and Cradle to
Cradle represent a unique opportunity to radically revise the currently wasteful system of …

This study examines shakeouts in the context of business ecosystems. Market turbulence
generated by core firm decisions in competing differentiated ecosystems can generate …

We study monopoly pricing of overlapping generations of a durable good. We consider two
sorts of goods: those with an active secondhand market and anonymous consumers, such …

The paper attempts to provide a formal theory of planned obsolescence based on
incompatible technologies in the presence of network externalities. We explore how a …