Dominant digital platforms such as Google and Facebook collect personal information of users by default precipitating a … market failure in the market for personal information. We establish the economic harms from the market failure. We discuss …

providing information and communications. This has prompted a search for ways to increase Internet adoption and narrow its …A country’s human capital and economic productivity increasingly depend on the Internet due to its expanding role in … determinants of Internet access difficult to change in the short run. Internet content increases adoption and can be changed more …

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 properties define a regime known as “network neutrality.” In 2005, some …

We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …

the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergenceof Internet …

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality …

Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers on the other side of the Internet … incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees on the other side of the Internet while competing for Internet access …