We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …' investments; and endogenous regulation. We find access regulation to negatively affect both total industry and individual carrier …

We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers on the other side of the Internet …. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees on the other side of …

Many networks such as the Internet have been found to possess scale-free and small-world network properties reflected …-organizing processes and more specifically, preferential attachment. New nodes in a network tend to attach themselves to other vertices …, the diameter of the network is small in comparison to other network structures, and movement through the network is …

Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe recent efforts have … produced a proposal by the European Commission that envisages the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation … artificial and the proposed regulation of markets for Internet traffic services constitutes a regulatory fallacy. …

I generalize the workhorse model of network competition to include income effects in call demand. Empirical work has … shown call demand to increase significantly with income. For any positive income effect, network operators prefer a … discrimination. Under price discrimination, the networks charge a lower price for calls within the own network (on-net) than to other …

We investigate the implications of Network Neutrality regulation for Internet fragmentation. We model a two … universal distribution of content is always an equilibrium when Network Neutrality regulation is in place. In contrast, when …-sided market, where Content Providers (CPs) and consumers interact through Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and CPs sell consumers …

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no …; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price discrimination but no exclusive contracts; and (iv) no regulation: the … network operator can sell exclusive rights to content providers. We compare the equilibrium outcomes explicitly accounting for …

To this day, the Internet holds the promise of uniting all people in a global communication network. However, in recent … fragmentation of the Internet. Drawing on network theory, this article retraces the conflicts and developments that have shaped the …Bis heute birgt das Internet das Versprechen, alle Menschen in einem globalen Kommunikationsnetz horizontal zu vereinen …