Pinar Karaca-Mandic

RAND Corporation

Assistant Professor, Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota
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Honors & Awards

Academic Progress Award, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley, Spring 2003
Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, Graduate Division, UC Berkeley, Fall 2002
Continuing Student Fellowship, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley, 2001
Principal Investigator, “Analysis of Graduated Driver Licensing: Lower Risk Exposure or Better Driving” (with Greg Ridgeway), $185,000 from the National Institute of Child Health Development (application scored at top 3%), May 2006-May 2008
Co-Principal Investigator, “Peer Groups and Employment Outcomes of Young Adults”(with Nicole Maestas, PI), $200,000 from the National Institute of Child Health Development (application scored at top 0.6%), July 2007-July 2009.

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Role of Complementarities in Technology Adoption: The Case of DVD Players

Pinar Karaca-Mandic, RAND

Abstract

This paper estimates complementarities between DVD player adoption and availability of content on DVD. Model is estimated using household level panel data on adoption decisions, and panel data on the availability of movies for rental on DVD at different local regions as well as time series data on the number of movies released on DVD nationally. Estimated complementarities are statistically and economically significant, and suggest that DVD player manufacturers could achieve profit gains from subsidizing DVD content providers to release more movies on DVD. (JEL D12, D62, L11, L82, O33) Keywords: indirect network effects, complementarity, new technology, diffusion

Suggested Citation

Pinar Karaca-Mandic. 2007. "Role of Complementarities in Technology Adoption: The Case of DVD Players" The Selected Works of Pinar Karaca-Mandic
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/pinar_karaca_mandic/14

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Selected Works of Pinar Karaca-Mandic