the intensity of competition among them, and specifically to reduce their product quality investments. …

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition … access, with or without competition from a digital subscriber line provider, and using education dispersion as a proxy for …, competition reduces prices. As education dispersion increases, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; and when …

This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss competition on the Internet backbone as well as … relevant competition policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of entry, very fast network expansion … large web site to multiple ISPs (customer multi-homing) enhance price competition and make it very unlikely that any firm …

In this paper we study the implications of service level guarantees (SLGs) in a model of oligopoly competition where … oligopoly models of price competition, greatly simplifying the analysis of this otherwise complex competitive scenario. Notably …