Do incompatible network standards lead to domestic benefits? The case of color television

Article Abstract:

The development of standards that are compatible with those of other countries could lead to the successful entry of foreign firms into domestic markets. To prevent this from happening, and to protect local firms from competition, regulators often come up with local standards that do not conform to international norms. However, the case of the French color television industry, where local standards do not meet international norms, proves that such a strategy on the part of regulators does not benefit local industry at all.

Household audio and video equipment, Audio and Video Equipment Manufacturing, Television Sets, Standards, Economic aspects, Televisions, France, Standardization, Television equipment industry

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Modelling television programming choices

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Competitive television broadcasting companies opt to air programs that have mass appeal regardless of its cultural and social significance to the viewers. Advertiser-financed television companies opt to air programs which have little social welfare significance while pay television companies choose the other. In a restricted channel environment, these same companies will be inclined to show programs with a wider appeal.

Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Motion picture and tape distribution, Motion Picture and Video Distribution, Television Distribution, Pay Television, Models, Analysis, Television broadcasting, Influence, Television programs, Television viewers, Pay-per-view television, Subscription television

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The impacts of innovations and standards on trade of measurement and testing products: Empirical results of Switzerland's bilateral trade flows with Germany, France and the UK

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The effects of innovations and standards on the trade of measurement and testing products are examined, based on Switzerland's bilateral trade flows with Germany, France and the UK.

Measuring & controlling devices, not elsewhere classified, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Measure & Control Eqp NEC, Research, Innovations, Technological innovations, Measuring instruments

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