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The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical … violations. In contrast, the current paper argues that NN regulation is largely ineffective, in particular, when it comes to the … price rule. NN regulation is effective only in preventing the blocking of specific content and in preventing the favoring of …
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We study a hybrid marketplace where a vertically integrated platform competes with a seller in a horizontally differentiated downstream market. The platform has a data advantage and can price discriminate consumers, whereas the seller cannot. Our analysis shows that, by properly setting the...
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Brokesova, Deck and Peliova [Int. J. Ind. Organ. 37 (2014) 229-237] have shown that comparative static results from two-period behavior-based pricing models hold in laboratory experiments, but they observed significant differences from point predictions. We report findings in conformity with...
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optimal policy. Our results provide insights for the evaluation of recent policy interventions (e.g., the regulation of …
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Pay What You Want (PWYW) and Name Your Own Price (NYOP) are customer driven pricing mechanisms that give customers (some) pricing power. Both have been used in service industries with high fixed costs to price discriminate without setting a reference price. Their participatory and innovative...
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may lower productive efficiency. Therefore, price discrimination increases welfare if regulation is the dominant source of …
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