Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other … imposes positive fees on content and applications providers. Similarly, we find that imposing net neutrality in duopoly …

Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other … imposes positive fees on content and applications providers. Similarly, we find that imposing net neutrality in duopoly …

) newspapers in the Internet. For this purpose, we build a model of multiple issues which allows each newspaper to choose quality …

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss competition on the Internet backbone as well as …, connections by the same Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) to multiple backbones (ISP multi-homing), and connections by the same … providing Internet backbone connectivity would find it profitable to degrade or sever interconnection with other backbones in an …

The vast majority of US residential consumers face a monopoly or duopoly in broadband Internet access. Up to now, the … Internet was characterized by a regime of “net neutrality” where there was no discrimination in the price of a transmitted …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of …

While some broadband providers have called Internet content and application providers free riders on their … infrastructure, this is incorrect and misguided. End-users pay for their residential broadband providers for access to the Internet … broadband providers’ ISPs in order to reach their customers. This feature of the Internet has been one key factor that has …

telephone companies or cable operators) and instead are likely to act as a complement. Nor will competition in the Internet … lower prices being charged to residential Internet subscribers. This is true under a robust set of assumptions. Despite some …

This experiment focuses on a contest played over a star network of 6 nodes. By placing targets in a network, the value … of a target is dependent on its connectivity to other targets. The experiment compares the cases where the defense is …