A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

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 …

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

the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergenceof Internet …

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality …

Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers on the other side of the Internet … incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees on the other side of the Internet while competing for Internet access …

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 … also discuss the incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees “on the other side” of the Internet while …

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 …