The Internet has assumed a central role in the global economy facilitating commerce and communication, and is thus central to many areas of IS research. In particular, IS researchers played a critical role in the academic discourse on net neutrality, which has recently informed new regulatory...

Net neutrality is a widely debated policy issue that has the potential to alter the dynamics of accessing online content. The focal point of the debate lies in whether broadband service providers should be allowed to charge content providers for the preferential delivery of their digital...

The debate of net neutrality and the potential regulation of net neutrality may fundamentally change the dynamics of data consumption and transmission through the internet. The existing literature on economics of net neutrality focuses only on the supply side of the market, i.e., a broadband...

Supporters of net neutrality have often argued that more competition among Internet service providers (ISPs) is beneficial for an open Internet and that the market power of the ISPs lies at the heart of the net neutrality debate. However, the joint effects of the competition among ISPs and among...

The status quo of prohibiting broadband service providers from charging websites for preferential access to their customers - the bedrock principle of net neutrality - is under fierce debate. We develop a game-theoretic model to address two critical issues of net neutrality: (1) Who are gainers...