The idea that marginal tax rates and tax revenue may be inversely related is at least as old as Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The emergence of the "Laffer Curve" in the modern public debate on the subject has rekindled interestin this idea. The present paper uses data from the 1982 tax rate...

Internet service needs to be appropriately priced, because Internet Service Providers want to remain competitive, and because pricing is increasingly seen by engineers as an essential tool for controlling network congestion. Thus, the pricing of Internet service lies at the interface of...

Twenty years ago. Martin Shubik suggested that the Shapley value of a game be used to allocate accounting costs. While that suggestion has-spawned a number of cost allocation proposals based on game-theoretic constructs, these studIes comprise only one of several major streams of cost allocation...

Although there exists an extensive and growing literature on how firms should and should not allocate costs, this literature has had only a limited impact on cost allocation practices. A possible explanation is that cost allocation proposals have not always captured essential aspects of the...

This paper analyzes competition between firms who sell multiple products in the presence of negative externalities. The model involves two networks who each may offer several service classes. Service classes are generated by forming sub-networks differentiated by their congestion levels. The...