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Optimal Consumer Network Structure Formation under Network Effects: Seeds Controllability and Visibility

Dou, Yifan; Niculescu, Marius Florin; Wu, Dongjun - NET Institute - 2011

Understanding the process of software adoption is of paramount importance to software start-ups. We study a …

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Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2010

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 information transmitted rather than its content. These...

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2013

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose download limits on content consumers: doing so increases the degree to which those consumers view content providers’ products as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the...

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Optimal Pricing of Access and Secondary Goods with Repeat Purchases: Evidence from Online Grocery Shopping and Delivery Fees

Gil, Ricard; Korkmaz, Evsen; Sahin, Ozge - NET Institute - 2014

In this paper we investigate optimal pricing strategies for an online grocery retailer who derives its profits from delivery fees and grocery sales. We base our theoretical framework upon the well-established work of Schmalensee (1981) in two-part pricing, while allowing for repeat purchase...

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Pricing Digital Goods: Discontinuous Costs and Shared Infrastructure

Huang, Ke-Wei; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2006

trading, on-demand software, digital music, streamed video-on-demand and grid computing. These goods are often modeled as …

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THE EFFECT OF ENTRY AND MARKET STRUCTURE ON CELLULAR PRICING TACTICS

Seim, Katja; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2003

We test the effect of entry on the tariff choices of incumbent cellular firms. We relate the change in the breadth of calling plans between 1996, when incumbents enjoyed a duopoly market, and 1998, when incumbents faced increased competition from personal communications services (PCS) firms....

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The Economics of the Internet

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2007

We discuss salient economic aspects of the Internet, including the possible abolition of net neutrality by local broadband access networks as well as potential incompatibilities and degradation of connectivity in the Internet backbone.

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Selling and Leasing Software with Network Externality

Zhang, Jennifer; Seidmann, Abraham - NET Institute - 2006

leasing strategy for a special type of durable good --- software. We look at a software vendor that can sell (at a posted … software. We address some of the specific issues of implementing the selling and/or leasing policies at the packaged software … environment. We show that by properly defining their pricing structure, software vendors can segment the market and second …

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WHO BENEFITS FROM ONLINE PRIVACY?

Taylor, Curtis; Wagman, Liad - NET Institute - 2008

When firms can identify their past customers, they may use information about purchase histories in order to price discriminate. We present a model with a monopolist and a continuum of heterogeneous consumers, where consumers can opt out from being identified, possibly at a cost. We find that...

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“Net Neutrality,” Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2007

The vast majority of US residential consumers face a monopoly or duopoly in broadband Internet access. Up to now, the Internet was characterized by a regime of “net neutrality” where there was no discrimination in the price of a transmitted information packet based on the identities of...

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