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

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

side” of the market) increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform …

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

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

side” of the market) increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585461

Hit and Miss: Leverage, Sacrifice, and Refusal to Deal in the Supreme Court Decision in Trinko

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2005

telecommunications: a monopoly of the local telecommunications network, as well as a monopoly in retail local telecommunications services … competitors. Thus, Verizon used its monopoly of the network infrastructure to disadvantage entrants in retail. In doing so … makes sense only insofar as it helps the defendant maintain or obtain monopoly power.” …

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects*

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2005

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of a complementary good provided either by it or by another firm. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of the complementary good, i.e., the extent...

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Pricing of Complementary Goods and Network Effects

Economides, Nicholas; Viard, V. Brian - NET Institute - 2004

We discuss the case of a monopolist of a base good in the presence of complementary goods provided either by it or by other firms. We assess and calibrate the extent of the influence on the profits from the base good that is created by the existence of complementary goods, i.e., the extent of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622726

The Economics of the Internet Backbone

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2004

This paper discusses the economics of the Internet backbone. I discuss competition on the Internet backbone as well as relevant competition policy issues. In particular, I show how public protocols, ease of entry, very fast network expansion, connections by the same Internet Service Provider...

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When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon; Halaburda, Hanna - NET Institute - 2010

We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects,...

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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010

We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...

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Tying, Bundling, and Loyalty/Requirement Rebates

Economides, Nicholas - NET Institute - 2010

show that the Chicago School Theory of a single monopoly surplus that justifies tying, bundling, and loyalty …

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