Cremer, Jacques; Rey, Patrick; Tirole, Jean - In: Journal of Industrial Economics 48 (2000) 4, pp. 433-72
We study the "backbone market" in the Internet. After discussing the structure of the Internet, we use an extension of the Katz-Shapiro network model to analyze the strategies that would be used by dominant backbone. We show that a larger backbone prefers a lower quality interconnection than the...