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We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of Content Providers (CPs). We … study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …
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We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of heterogeneous Content Providers … (CPs). We study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and …
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We study the effect of internet diffusion on childbirth procedures performed in England between 2000 and 2011. We … exploit an identification strategy based on geographical discontinuities in internet access generated by technological factors …. We show that broadband internet access increased Cesarean-sections: mothers living in areas with better internet access …
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Central features of today’s electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
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This paper studies the incentives to engage in exclusionary pricing in the context of two-sided markets. Platforms are horizontally differentiated, and seek to attract users of two groups who single-home and enjoy indirect network externalities from the size of the opposite user group active on...
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The distinguishing feature of two-sided markets is that the pricing structure, that is, the relative prices charged to each side, matters. Regulators need to understand and account for the interdependence of prices in both sides. Some interventions that lower the prices on one side can result in...
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