We develop a stylized two-sided model of the local broadband Internet market where prices are used to facilitate “interactions” between the Broadband Internet Service Provider’s (BISP) subscribers and Content and Application Service Providers (CASPS), as well as the priority (i.e., speed)...

We compare the economic efficiency of imposing a “zero price rule” on Broadband Internet Service Providers (BISPs) with the economic efficiency associated with allowing the BISP to charge Content and Application Service Providers (CASPs) a non-discriminatory uniform price for...

The so-called Benford's Law describes regularity in the distribution of digits of randomly selected numbers, which states that the relative frequency of the leading digits reduces in a systematic manner from the digit 1 to the digit 9. This distribution hypothesis is being discussed in recent...

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...

This paper empirically assesses the relative role of health plan prices, service quality and optional benefits in the decision to choose a health plan. We link representative German SOEP panel data from 2007 to 2010 to (i) health plan service quality indicators, (ii) measures of voluntary...