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 properties define a regime known as “network neutrality.” In 2005, some …

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

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 …, concentrated market structure, combined with high switching costs, provides last mile broadband network providers with the ability … lower prices being charged to residential Internet subscribers. This is true under a robust set of assumptions. Despite some …

Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the …

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet … with the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …

Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the …

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no …; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price discrimination but no exclusive contracts; and (iv) no regulation: the … network operator can sell exclusive rights to content providers. We compare the equilibrium outcomes explicitly accounting for …

or noise in signals about values, opportunities to innovate in smaller or less connected (in the network-theoretic sense …

Software (OSS) projects and contributors on the Internet, we construct two related networks: A Project network and a … by a network of unpaid software developers. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source … Contributor network. Knowledge spillovers may be closely related to the structure of such networks, since contributors who work on …