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Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007

competing for Internet access customers. Additionally, we discuss how price and non-price discrimination strategies may be used …

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Why Imposing New Tolls on Third-Party Content and Applications Threatens Innovation and Will Not Improve Broadband Providers’ Investment

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2010

. I argue that this is not the case. Possible higher revenues from discrimination may simply be returned to shareholders … and not invested. Additionally, evidence suggests networks invest more under non-discrimination requirements, and paid …

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Broadband Openness Rules Are Fully Justified by Economic Research

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2010

lower prices being charged to residential Internet subscribers. This is true under a robust set of assumptions. Despite some … parties’ mischaracterization of the economic literature, price discrimination by broadband providers against third party … especially acute when price discrimination is taken to the extreme of exclusive dealing between broadband providers and content …

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Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007

competing for Internet access customers. Additionally, we discuss how price and non-price discrimination strategies may be used …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760651

Learning in Advance Selling with Heterogeneous Consumers

Loginova, Oksana; Wang, X. Henry; Zeng, Chenhang - NET Institute - 2012

The advance selling strategy is implemented when a firm offers consumers the opportunity to order its product in advance of the regular selling season. Advance selling reduces uncertainty for both the firm and the buyer and enables the firm to update its forecast of future demand. The...

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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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Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Platform Design

Veiga, Andre; Weyl, E. Glen - NET Institute - 2011

One of the most salient issues faced by platforms like newspapers and credit card issuers is that users are heterogeneous in the value they bring to other users or to the platform. We develop a model with multi-dimensional heterogeneity where a monopoly platform chooses (price or non-price)...

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Design of Consumer Review Systems and Product Pricing

Jiang, Yabing; Guo, Hong - NET Institute - 2012

Consumer review systems have become an important marketing communication tool through which consumers share and learn product information. Although there is abundant evidence that consumer reviews have significant impact on consumer purchasing decisions, the design of consumer review systems and...

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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation: Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2011

variations in Quality of Service and no price discrimination; (ii) variations in Quality of Service but no price discrimination …; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price discrimination but no exclusive contracts; and (iv) no regulation: the …

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Dynamic Platform Design

Veiga, Andre - NET Institute - 2014

share increases. When the platform can target different groups of consumers with different prices, it caters to those …

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