Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Paul Klemperer Author-Email: paul.klemperer@economics.ox.ac.uk Author-Workplace-Name: Nuffield College, University of Oxford and Member, UK Competition Commission* Author-Workplace-Homepage: http://www.paulklemperer.org/index.htm Title: Network Effects and Switching Costs: two short essays for the new New Palgrave Abstract: We briefly survey the economics of network effects and switching costs (in 3,400 words). For comprehensive coverage of the same ground see Farrell and Klemperer’s 60,000-word contemporaneous survey, available at www.paulklemperer.org Length: 17 pages Creation-Date: 2006-07-01 Number: 2006-W06 File-URL: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/economics/papers/2006/w6/New%20Palgrave.pdf File-Format: application/pdf Handle: RePEc:nuf:econwp:0606