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Telecommunications Regulation: An Introduction

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2004

carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …

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The Strategic Use of Download Limits by a Monopoly Platform

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

as substitutes. This, in turn, intensifies the competition among providers, generating greater surplus for consumers. A …

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Assessing Value in Product Networks

OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Libai, Barak - NET Institute - 2011

Traditionally, the value of a product has been assessed according to the direct revenues the product creates. However, products do not exist in isolation but rather influence one another's sales. Such influence is especially evident in eCommerce environments, where products are often presented...

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Broadband User Discrimination and the Net Neutrality Debate

Guo, Hong; Bandyopadhyay, Subhajyoti; Cheng, Hsing K. - NET Institute - 2009

The net neutrality debate has brought out economic rationale for and against a variety of proposals of the broadband service providers to differentiate between different classes of users. Broadband users are characterized by the differing amounts of content they request online, as well as their...

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Algorithmic Trading and Information

Hendershott, Terrence; Riordan, Ryan - NET Institute - 2009

We examine algorithmic trades (AT) and their role in the price discovery process in the 30 DAX stocks on the Deutsche Boerse. AT liquidity demand represents 52% of volume and AT supplies liquidity on 50% of volume. AT act strategically by monitoring the market for liquidity and deviations of...

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

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

increases total surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We …

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing: Two-Part Tariffs

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - NET Institute - 2007

of competition in two-part tariffs, we consider a class of access pricing rules, similar to the optimal one under … competition in linear prices, derived by Jeon (2005), but based on average retail prices. We show that firms choose the variable …

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Group Coupons: Interpersonal Bundling on the Internet

Chen, Yongmin; Zhang, Tianle - NET Institute - 2012

Sellers sometimes offer goods for sale under both a regular price and a discount for group purchase if the consumer group reaches some minimum size. This selling practice, which we term interpersonal bundling, has been popularized on the Internet by companies such as Groupon. We explain why...

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The Economics of Network Neutrality

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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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand

Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - NET Institute - 2008

We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers' subscription demand is elastic and networks … show that a reduction of the termination charge below cost has two opposing effects: it softens competition and it helps to … termination charge below cost, either to soften competition or to internalize the network effect. The regulator will favor …

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