social network; identifying influential players that facilitate information dissemination emerges as a pivotal step for their … success. In this paper, we tackle this problem using a stylized model that features payoff externalities and local network … effects, and the network designer is allowed to release information to only a subset of players (leaders); these targeted …

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no … network operator can sell exclusive rights to content providers. We compare the equilibrium outcomes explicitly accounting for … Quality of Service and network operator profits across regimes. …

obligated to lease parts of their local telecommunications network to any firm at “cost plus a reasonable profit” prices which …&T, an entrant in local telecommunications, leased parts of Verizon’s network. Trinko, a local telecommunications services … telecommunications: a monopoly of the local telecommunications network, as well as a monopoly in retail local telecommunications services …

information transmitted rather than its content. These properties define a regime known as “network neutrality.” In 2005, some … to introduce such fees when the network is congested and more traffic implies delays. We find that network neutrality is … the various regimes that have been proposed as alternatives to network neutrality. In particular, we show that the benefit …

existence of the complementary good, i.e., the extent of the network effect. We establish an equivalence between a model of a … base and a complementary good and a reduced-form model of the base good in which network effects are assumed in the … consumers’ utility functions as a surrogate for the presence of direct or indirect network effects, such as complementary goods …

existence of complementary goods, i.e., the extent of the network effect. We establish an equivalence between a model of a base … and a complementary good and a reduced-form model of the base good in which network effects are assumed in the consumers … influence on profits of the intensity of network effects and quality improvements in both goods. We evaluate the incentive that …

relevant competition policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of entry, very fast network expansion …