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We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices for interconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges as in the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determine the access price that network i pays to network j as a linear function of the...
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The increasing pervasiveness of the Internet has dramatically changed the way that consumers shop for goods. Consumer …
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As auctions are becoming the main mechanism for selling advertisement space on the web, marketing agencies specialized in bidding in online auctions are proliferating. We analyze theoretically how bidding delegation to a common marketing agency can undermine both revenues and efficiency of the...
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We study competition among upstream firms when each of them sells a portfolio of distinct products and the downstream has a limited number of slots (or shelf space). In this situation, we study how bundling affects competition for slots. When the downstream has k number of slots, social...
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This paper examines price data on over 222 LCD televisions to estimate indirect network effects arising from two sources. First, we conjecture that the disconnect between the timing of when broadcasters are required to convert to an only digital-signal world and when television manufacturers...
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …
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Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other … also discuss the incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees “on the other side” of the Internet while …
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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 …
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the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet …
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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 …
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