Introduction Shane Greenstein and Victor Stango 1. Standard setting in markets: the Browser war Timothy F. Bresnahan and Pai-Ling Yin 2. Competition through institutional form: the case of cluster tool standards Richard Langlois 3. The economic realities of open standards: black, white, and many shades of gray Joel West 4. Coordination costs and standard setting: lessons from 56k modems Shane Greenstein and Marc Rysman 5. Promoting e-business through vertical IS standards: lessons from the US home mortgage industry Charles Steinfield, Rolf Wigand, M. Lynne Markus and Gabe Minton 6. Intellectual property and standardization committee participation in the US modem industry Neil Gandal, Nataly Gantman and David Genesove 7. Manipulating interface standards as an anticompetitive strategy Jeff MacKie-Mason and Janet Netz 8. Delay and de jure standardization: exploring the slowdown in internet standards development Timothy Simcoe 9. Standardization: a failing paradigm Carl Cargill and Sherrie Bolin 10. Standards battles and public policy Luis Cabral and Tobias Kretschmer 11. Switching to digital television: business and public policy issues Norbert Maier and Marco Ottaviani 12. Should competition policy favor compatibility? Joseph Farrell Index.
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