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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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restrictive price-cap regulation in the X market decreases Y market quantities; but restrictive caps in the X market have a … positive impact on Y market outputs. Behavior in laboratory markets confirms these propositions. Regulation that lowers X …
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We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell …. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees on the other side of … surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers. We also discuss the …
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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 …
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This paper compares and contrasts the processes used by the European, United Kingdom and Scottish parliaments in considering broadband policies, legislation, regulatory systems and outcomes, within a complex triple-tiered governance system. Broadband is of increasing importance due to the...
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In order to encourage investment in telecommunication networks, governments have been encouraged to adopt a regulatory state model, with an independent regulatory authority that is subject to a system of appeals and to parliamentary oversight, providing different forms of accountability. The...
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costs to the products being advertised, - Elimination (or non-emergence) of competition in markets to the products being …
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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 …
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use. Regulations are unnecessary because even in the absence of robust broadband competition, network owners are likely to … protected the railroads from competition by erecting new barriers to entry in the surface transportation marketplace. Other 20th …-century regulatory agencies also limited competition in the industries they regulated. Like these older regulatory regimes, network …
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regulation increases total surplus suggesting that network neutrality regulation could be warranted even when some competition is …We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation …
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