Net neutrality - all bits should be treated identically by broadband Internet service providers regardless of source - is hotly debated. Proponents find adequate competition among broadband providers to prevent harm from content-based discrimination. Opponents find such regulation premature or...

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...

This paper studies, using a two-sided market framework, the impact of regulation on platform's pricing scheme, on investment decisions, on network users' decision to join the network, and on welfare. We take a monopoly platform that serves a continuum of vertically differentiated buyers and...

The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...

Infrastructure regulation has faced transitions not just in recent years, but also throughout much its existence over the last century. Among the many crucial issues in these transitions has been how to handle network effects. These can both cause monopoly and complicate the management of...

We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...

In an October 22, 2009 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Federal Communications Commission posed a number of questions regarding the merits of price discrimination given the two-sided structure of broadband markets. The law and economics literature finds that price discrimination is...

Market definition is an essential ingredient to competitive and regulatory analysis. Yet, there is significant disparity regarding the definition of the relevant geographic market for high-capacity circuits, commonly referred to as Special Access services. Given the present debate over expanding...