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Net Neutrality : A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-Offs
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2016
The “net neutrality” principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the...
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Net Neutrality, Pricing Instruments and Incentives
Gans, Joshua S. - 2016
We correct and extend the results of Gans (2015) regarding the effects of net neutrality regulation on equilibrium outcomes in settings where a content provider sells its services to consumers for a fee. We examine both pricing and investment effects. We extend the earlier paper's result that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997888
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Streaming Reaches Flood Stage : Does Spotify Stimulate or Depress Music Sales?
Aguiar, Luis - 2015
Streaming music services have exploded in popularity in the past few years, variously raising optimism and concern about their impacts on recorded music revenue. On the one hand, streaming services allow sellers to engage in bundling with the promise of increasing revenues, profits, and consumer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013191
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Merchant Transmission Investment
Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean - 2021
We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218795
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Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2021
This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition, the sharing rules now in place reduce incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247857
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The Online Laboratory : Conducting Experiments in a Real Labor Market
Horton, John J. - 2015
Online labor markets have great potential as platforms for conducting experiments, as they provide immediate access to a large and diverse subject pool and allow researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials. We argue that online experiments can be just as valid - both internally and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038852
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Building and Delivering the Virtual World : Commercializing Services for Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220521
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Online Auctions
Ockenfels, Axel; Reiley, David; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim - 2021
The economic literature on online auctions is rapidly growing because of the enormous amount of freely available field data. Moreover, numerous innovations in auction-design features on platforms such as eBay have created excellent research opportunities. In this article, we survey the...
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Universal Service in the Digital Age : The Commercialization and Geography of U.S. Internet Access
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2021
Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other … combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the geographic spread of the commercial Internet … Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper argues that two business models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246497
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Propose with a Rose? Signaling in Internet Dating Markets
Lee, Soohyung - 2011
The large literature on costly signaling and the somewhat scant literature on preference signaling had varying success in showing the effectiveness of signals. We use a field experiment to show that even when everyone can send a signal, signals are free and the only costs are opportunity costs,...
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